Jul 29 2010
This white gazebo to the left looks/feels brand new ….. a little frog .. 井底之蛙* .. sounds like me
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A beautiful garden in Baunatal, a town in the district of Kassel in Germany – ok, if you must know, it’s two hours away from Frankfurt. Ever heard of Grimm Brothers?
Yes?
Good for you.
No ???
Never [...]
May 13 2010
Early spring and last year’s ..
Degas’ ballerina
Garden of Eden
Georgia O’Keeffe
Lily
Last July
The butterfly lovers
Nov 27 2009
Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving.
Stealing a little time here and there to post. This year’s Thanksgiving was uneventful like last year but is very busy nevertheless. Played some good tennis on Wednesday, hot pot for dinner with friends. Yesterday turned out to be nice so more tennis in the early [...]
Sep 21 2009
I have varied fixations over times. For the past few years I have falling in love with the orchard of specific coloration.
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I wanted to build something for the backyard so went to shopping at Home Depot for lumber or wood last Saturday, but couldn’t leave without check out its garden section – I still [...]
Sep 10 2009
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It’s a beach Roslyn!
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There’s nothing to garden!
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Just like every other endeavor, gardening can be addictive.
Jul 22 2009
This group of mushrooms near Turing Basin Park in NJ has to be the most colorful ones I’ve seen so far.
The corner of Main Street and Booth Memorial Av in Flushing used to a Chinese seafood restaurant, 鲤鱼门 (was it called Silver Pond?) for many years since the 80s, if [...]
Jul 20 2009
I took them at the same time.
Guess different light gives it unique coloration?
Dumb statement.
The Color Purple was by Steven Spielberg, in 1985, aiming at winning an Oscar.
Though the film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actress for Goldberg and Best Supporting Actress for both Avery and Winfrey, it did [...]
Jul 20 2009
Matt Biondi is one of only two swimmers (Mark Spitz being the other) who have won seven medals in one Olympics and eleven career medals – [this was written prior to Michael Fred Phelps.]
Biondi began modestly in 1984, earning his first gold medal as a member of the US 4×100m freestyle relay team. Four [...]
Jul 17 2009
LONDON Feb. 3, 2009 – A sculpture by French Impressionist Edgar Degas sold for 13.3 million pounds ($19 million) Tuesday at Sotheby’s auction house in London.
Degas’ “Petite danseuse de quatorze ans” or “Little 14-year-old dancer,” a bronze depicting a young ballerina with her chin tilted up and hands clasped behind her back, was bought by [...]
Jul 16 2009
Or labor of love. Golfer’s garden, taken today at 9am. He always wants to set up a garden where I can read. Nice .. thanks but no thanks. I can’t stand the buggies.
See this pretty dragonfly? It’s better to keep it at lens’ length.
Jul 15 2009
Georgia O’Keeffe is one of my favored artists.
Color, drama, boldness, Americana
Yes, very American
Her paintings present crisply contoured forms that are replete with subtle tonal transitions of varying colors. She often transformed her subject matter into powerful abstract images. Importantly, O’Keeffe played a central role in bringing an American art [...]
Jul 14 2009
Those two below were taken this AM. Those lilies are short lived, they come in a snap then are gone.
Jul 13 2009
Those two photos below – Rose of Sharon – left was taken taken at pm and right at am. Not sure the light was different or they should look different during different time of the day … amusing.
Those photos were taken yesterday, pm. A big butterfly, I called Madam Butterfly was visiting us. The [...]
Jul 05 2009
We stopped by this little nursery on Route 7, not far from Vermont. The owner, a portly man approached us and was very eager to sell. That’s probably turned Golfer off.
Jul 03 2009
The Butterfly Lovers or simply Liang Zhu is a Chinese legend about the tragic romance between two lovers, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai (梁山伯與祝英台), Chinese version of Romeo and Juliet.
Some plantes attract more or different kind of bugs. They visit me all the time, a wasp (or bee) or two too.
The legend of Liang Shanbo [...]
Jun 29 2009
Sandy’s green thumb is formidable. I finally found few seconds to picture the beauties before they’re gone for the season.
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