keep remember!

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Perfect place

I move things in my house daily basis. arranging and rearranging until i felt this is the right place for this tree or this cup or this chair.

i bought a teeny tiny Ganesha statue in a Connecticut town called Nor-walk. I went to a neighborhood American convenient store and i saw Ganesha in a glass box, and several magnets and posters of movie actors in their outfits, they are all in a designated corner.

NTR (Telugu movie actor) and his famous roles as Rama and Krishna are the highlights in one of those magnets and posters. 

I can't believe it, NTR in American convenient store!! how did that happened, so i went to ask this middle aged white lady, her face lit and started sharing her recent adventurous trip to India and she bought the road side stuff to sell in her store. 

I told her that i wanted to purchase Ganesha statue, she is so happy that Ganesha is going to a loving family. i am so blessed and humble that he choose me.

I move him across the state, apartment to home, every corner in the house over the years and finally under the Ginseng Ficus Bonsai tree!!

I bought Bonsai several days ago from home depot, cup and saucer planter came last year and waiting for me to use it and finally all in one as a visual medley.   

perfect place for him to stay with us for ever and so peaceful to see him.

{picture taken by me}

2011 Backyard Crop

 This year backyard gardening is a little disappointing due to weather, In June i sow the seeds, right away rains started and lasted 15 days non stop.

All my seeds either soaked and spoiled, or they flushed out of the garden bed. 

I sowed again, but for a lot of Indian varieties it's too late to buy seeds :(
but still i have plenty of other choices to look forward.

2011 veggie list:

broad beans

Kentucky wonder garden bean

heirloom tomatoes

cherry tomatoes

green bell pepper

okra

chills

banana pepper

Garlic

bottle gourd 

potato

mint

spinach
beetroot 

veggie bed in July

banana pepper

bell pepper

potato

bed in mid August
 heirloom tomato, broad beans, bottle gourd, okra, bell pepper


i am happy to go to garden in the morning and exited to see what garden is going to offer for me to cook.
my tiny garden bed never send me inside without abundance of veggies.  i love to pick them, searching in the bushes, smelling, and cooking!!!!

in mid August to September end i go inside basket full of veggies :)


"When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, There is always the garden."-- Minnie Aumonier

{ text and pictures by ME }

love it!

2011 Rethink Scholarship at Langara Call for Entries from Rethink Canada on Vimeo.

Our Beautiful Earth

maximize the screen to get the awesome view 

A Timelapse Journey with Nature: 2009-2011 from Henry Jun Wah Lee on Vimeo.

speechless !!!!

Question

my son had a doubt last night

so he ask me,

mom, when we cry, are tears fresh water or are they just like spit out of your mouth? 

US debt crisis

visual presentation

Numbers are my worst enemy. my brain simply don't except them or completely reject to even consider looking at them.

so finances, investments, wall street, banking, share market etc are completely foreign world for me.

but if you explain visually, i would be so ever happy for your efforts!
i love creativity and the creative community!

My backyard visitors

breakfast, lunch time is nature watch time for our family.

from breakfast nook window you could see veggie garden, lake, and surrounding area.

in summer we see all sorts of birds come and go as they please, when ever i get a chance i take a picture, most of the time i want to take a picture but the batteries are out. Me and kids try to identify the bird and know about them little bit.

American Goldfinch
beautiful color and tiny bird sitting on my Cosmos branch with juicy worm, when my daughter yelled for me to see this beauty i am so glad my camera is ready with batteries.

Great blue heron visits often for fish

European Starling



Turkey vulture, first i was shocked to see such a big bird in my backyard, they stayed there quit a while, roaming and checking, excited to see them!



Ruby-throated hummingbird.
it's a challenge to take a good picture, they are fast and very tiny.

Canada goose, except winter they are in the lake or backyard eating grass and chit chatting in groups.

common grackle or common raven
i couldn't figured out which one

pekin duck 

{photos taken by me}