Hello, Lovers of Nature

Sending love from this end to you all, lovers of nature, and readers of my series. I appreciate the honest feedback I have been getting from you all, thank you so much for being here. Welcome to another episode of Lovers of Nature through photography part 10. 

The display picture of this episode is one of the commonest flowering plants in Nigeria. It's normally called the flame of the woods or jungle flame. The botanical name is IXORA COCCINEA. The jungle flame plant is mostly found in parks, homes, gardens, hospitals or school environments, landscapes, and so on. This beautiful flower exists in different colours from red, yellow, pink, and orange.

The flowers are planted for ornamental purposes and also for medicinal purposes. All parts including flowers, leaves, and roots are taken for various medicinal preparations for skin disease, Diabetes, etc. These are the wonderful uses of the flame of the woods.

Source of the name of plant: [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixora_coccinea]

Today's picture is a sample of the red and yellow specie of the jungle flame flower. I snapped both pictures on different occasions in different places. The red one was snapped at the back of our house after a rainy night. In the morning, I went to the back of the house to snap the lovely red flower while it was still wet with no sunshine. The yellow one was snapped by me on church premises after Sunday service. 

All the colours of the IXORA plant are amazingly beautiful but in Nigeria, the commonly seen colour of the flower is red then followed by yellow. Jungle flame is lovely and be-gorgeous.

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Always remember that everything God created for mankind is extremely beautiful and of great value to us. Always appreciate the beauty of nature and ourselves as human beings(born of God to be His beloved children).

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Hello Lovers of nature

Welcome to LOVERS OF NATURE THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY PART 6. Today, I will be moving from GREEN BEAUTY to wonderful cloud formations. Clouds are simply the visible mass of liquid water or frozen crystals suspended in the atmosphere. Cloud formation plays a basic role in the water cycle of our ecosystem.

Water cycle is a natural process of evaporation of water from the water bodies (e.g oceans, rivers, lakes, etc) to the sky, thereby forming as clouds which leads to subsequent condensation and precipitation as rain or snow. The cloud in this natural cycle serves as a storage basin where all the water vapor leaving the earth(through the process of evaporation) can be stored before it's condenses(changing from gas to liquid) and pours down as rain or snow.

Clouds when formed in the sky, makes beautiful patterns displaying different shapes and colours in the atmosphere. Sometimes, the different colours in the cloud are influenced by the amount of dirt or dust in the atmosphere. 

Sunrise and sunset gives beauteous colouring to the cloud. It's gives me great joy gazing at the wonderfully made cloud patterns with lovely colours in the sky. The clouds apart from Playing a major role in water cycle, it's adds beauty to the sky . 

Today's display picture is an amazing cloud formation, a picture I took on my streets while going for evening rehearsals in church. The cloud pattern or shape in the picture is called a CUMULUS CLOUD. Cumulus cloud take the shape of a heap or come spreading vertically in the atmosphere.

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When your beloved pets or loved ones die, it's scientifically possible to turn them into diamonds that you wear around your neck as a form of remembrance. This type of diamond is called memorial diamond. And there are companies that will help you make it possible. 

But the question is: can you really turn a dead human being or animal to a diamond? 

YES! 

How? 

To know the how, we must understand what makes a diamond.  

Diamonds are just a collection of carbon atoms that have been arranged in a tightly fitted crystalline style.

Just press a graphite or coal, with enough pressure and at high enough temperature, then the carbon atoms in them will be forced into this tightly-fitted patterns. 

Boom! You already about to have a real diamond. 

Just like the coal and graphite, biological tissues too can be turned into a diamond. Biological creatures are composed primarily of water and carbon-based molecules. 3 elements you find in abundance in all biological tissue are: hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon. 

So, to turn a dead animal or human to a diamond, all hydrogen and oxygen atoms are removed from the body, leaving the tissues left with only carbon atoms. 

The carbon atoms are filtered more and more till they are completely pure. 

Once they are pure, they are arranged in a tightly fitted crystalline style to become a real diamond. 

Turning a deceased animal or family into a diamond cost nothing less than $3,000. That amount can rise to the tune of $50,000 depending on the size you want