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its a bamboo driven in ground to linger boats. but i see it bit otherwise.
think about something who always remains there, always sees someone come and go. a static life only thing that changes is shadow as the day goes by.
imagine a life like this.... a static life.
a material which doesnt apeals has no smell,colour nothing apealing and it is the only reason why i shot it with the muddy background coz here it tells a subtle story of its existence. it is where it always belonged. existed to be ignored.
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Anyone who drives between Uptown & Downtown Minneapolis will recognize this piece by Lawrence Weiner on the side of the Walker Art Center. Strange light leaks!
Last bits of summer in the Pacific Northwest
Shot with the Fuji X-E3. I edited the EXIF data to the Fuji X-T20 this enabled me to shoot RAW and load the images into Lightroom CC.
Well, here is Luka, my latest custom and she's a keeper for me. What I've been up to? Well, things are a bit crazy here in our new environment. We moved to the wonderful state of Oregon and have settled in a Portland suburb for the moment. My older 2 girls are in school. My kindergartner only is in school for a "half" day which is only 2 1/2 hours so my day is chopped up a lot. My youngest is almost 3 and is on the Autism spectrum so unfortunately, that means dolly time gets put on the back burner and customizing and creating is in the back seat and my first priority is "recovery" for my little guy. But nonetheless, I'm determined to carve out time for myself even if it means hiring a babysitter to hang out with the kiddos while I get some me time. Plus, I need to make extra cash for supplements and other bio-medical treatments so perhaps I'll eventually be able to kill two birds and create and earn enough for these things. Luka is my little pet that reminds me to smile and enjoy the little things. My days are measured by if my little guy does something new, any hint that he is progressing. It's amazing how tiny achievements like him doing the "more" sign or initiating some kind of play will send me over the moon. Some days are better than others. We may take two steps forward and one step back. Sorry for all the cliche's but there you go. That's our life right now. The hubby works nights now and so 3 to 4 days a week it's all on me to take care of the kids. Mind you, I'm not much of a cook. That was Pete's job so I've had to try and do more than boxed mac n cheese. Did I mention I hate cooking? If only Blythes could cook.
July 7, 2008 | My other favorite fireworks shot from this past year. I like the negative space a lot in this one. I uploaded this as friends and family at first but then I thought oh well even though I uploaded this just to make a moo sticker I might as well subject it to the masses.
A bit old, but I forgot to post this. T- got a bag of treats from daycare for his birthday. This is his first time eating (giant) Tootsie Roll.
January: Was a little bit of a Blythe low point. I wasn't that inspired & I was very busy with my knitting & finishing our band's first original album. Even though there were not many photos Gertie made me laugh & smile many times through out the month.
February: I was SO busy this month promoting & gearing up for our CD release party with our band Jeremiah's Passion that I only snapped 2 pictures of Blythes the whole month! Acadia was the lucky one to join me in Valentines’ Day celebrations!
March: Our band hit the road on tour, & though Gertie was with me I never snapped a photo all month! But my husband received his iPhone, which made touring & picture taking/posting SO much easier!
April: This month touring continued but with the iPhone & Gertie (with brown hairs :) we were able to capture more of my adventures with Blythe! Kat celebrated her 1-year birthday with me & I said a sad goodbye to Nara, who is now a famous model in NY.
May: Brought more time traveling with Blythe as Gertie joined me for a trip to Nebraska for work & a wedding. Delysia celebrated her 2nd Year birthday with me, which was exciting. I had a few visiting Blythes pass through as I was trying to bring home my dream girl! This totally happened on May 16th when Apple, an amazing Vainilladolly custom, came & joined my family!
June: Apple brought back my total LOVE & joy for Blythe! I was SO inspired by her that I started a 365day adventure called An Apple A Day!! I was unable to make it to BlytheCon2011 due to a family emergency, but I loved being apart of Virtual BlytheCon & seeing all the happenings of the day. JojoBean's Blythe Kitty was sent away for a brand new surprise makeover with Morgan Orton. We did a lot of things together from summer camp, hiking the NC Mountains, swimming & Knitting in Public Day! It was exciting to have a Blythe by my side again!
July: It was time to take a Blythe Family shot & what better day than the 4th of July!! Soon after this we said a sad goodbye to Fern. This was a harder goodbye since JojoBean called Fern her twiny, but we see lots of pictures of Fern as she enjoys her life in France with Amelie!! July had us all over again from the SC Zoo, summer night baseball games, limeades from Sonic & finally our Family VK to Maine! Apple was with us the whole time! (Gertie came along too!) We finished off the month with JojoBean getting the surprise of her life when she opened a brand new totally pinky awesome Kitty!! She was beyond thrilled!!
August: We were still in Maine & captured many pictures of the newly made over Kitty. Apple & Gertie enjoyed seeing the sites as well! We returned home to NC & had a few hard days with the loss of a good friend & dealing with life living with celiac. We had concerts & end of the summer sleepovers filled with LPS Blythe playing!! Finally a farewell to summer reminded me of how glad I was to have Apple there to bring some smiles my way.
September: Brought a whole new change to life here as I entered the adventure of home schooling! It was fun having my daughters home & Apple & my other Blythes became a huge part of class time! I also celebrated my 30th birthday & my mom bought me my first middie blythe! She is ADORABLE!! (HoneyCrisp is Apple's little sister) I would be very happy with many more of these cuties!! We once again hit the road with our band joining TheAfterShockTour. Apple of course came along for the ride!
October: This month was busy! Still on tour we had a few stops home where we said good-bye to Acadia as we welcomed another dream girl into our home! On the 21st an amazing Vainilladolly custom with dimples named Trifle showed up! She was a BlytheConUK girl that I guess was meant to be in my arms! She has to be the most beautiful doll I have ever seen! I feel SO blessed to have her in my life. We went apple picking, saw snow in the NC Mountains, & climbed 6,684 ft to the top of Mt. Mitchell!! Tallest mountain on the eastern United States!
November: We started off this month by sharing the love of Blythe with one of my best friends. We gave Joyce, her 1st Blythe, a cute custom Hoot inspired girl! It was pretty neat! We were still on the road & Trifle joined Apple as we traveled all over NC. Apple some how snuck her way into joining my husband & I as we celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary. My Blythe girls celebrated Thanksgiving & were excited to decorate & get ready for the wonderful Christmas season!
December: My personal Blythe family has changed a lot over the year, but I am very happy with this group of 4 (plus middie!) We celebrated 200 days with Apple. Christmas was made extra special as we made a little girl's Christmas wish come true by bringing to life her own dream Blythe, Zandy! I got a special surprise myself on Christmas Eve with a sneak peek of Honey Crisp’s new makeover by Vainilladolly! I can't wait till she is back home! This year of Blythe ended with yet another surprise as MissRose received her first custom Blythe, Sonny Blue! Morgan Orton performed a Christmas miracle by transforming her into something so perfect in only a few short days! It was Amazing!!
2011 has brought so many new & renewed things with Blythe! I am so thankful that Blythe is apart of my life! I love my adventures & being able to share them with all of you! I also am grateful for each & every one of my Flickr families, friends & contacts. Seeing your own Blythe adventures inspires me & brings much laughter & smiles to my daily life! I am excited for what 2012 will bring!!
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Tuesday morning came awfully early, and I was still on a bit of a natural high from having spent the past 2 days up in the mountains with its moody/cloudy/misty/foggy weather. I came downstairs early, around 7:00, and ate breakfast alone for the last time at the Dragon’s Backbone Hostel. (I recall donating a book to their library, too; I forget which. Just a generic David Baldacci one, I think.)
Around 7:30, I started to set my way down the hill, enjoying the walk – going down is always much more relaxing than slogging my way up hill – and got to the main parking lot just below Dazhai with about 45 minutes to spare.
That 40 minute jaunt gave me time to reflect on the past two days. For the most part, I just thought it was a peaceful, beautiful, serene place, which I’d gladly visit again…probably in a different season (autumn, to give variety)…and that I wished I’d had a nicer (that is to say, any) sunrise or sunset. On Monday, I even woke up at 4:45 in the morning, but staring through the pitch black, not seeing stars, I knew that there wouldn’t be much of a sunrise to validate going an hour farther uphill above Tiantouzhai to the Music from Paradise viewpoint just to see….varying shades of gray. (The viewpoints here all have very interesting and flowery names. Ironically, at that one, there was a Chinese guy playing saxophone. If anyone wants to know what they’ll hear when they get to paradise…evidently, Simon & Garfunkel’s “Parsley Sage Rosemary & Thyme” and Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On.”)
With close to an hour in the parking lot, it’s entertaining to take a back seat to the dark corners of your mind. The bus to Yangshuo finally pulled up and I clambered aboard to settle in for the roughly 3-4 hour ride back through Guilin and south to the Li River valley and the lush, karst landscape of Yangshuo. I don’t recall how much the bus ticket cost, but I want to say it was cheap. Maybe 80 RMB or something along those lines, which is a little less than $15.
The ride between Dragon’s Backbone & Yangshuo was completely uneventful. It was just one of those times I wish I had a time machine (or a personal helicopter) to make it go that much more quickly…and avoid the horrendous Chinese driving, including the unnecessary traffic jam in the south part of Guilin and thicker traffic between Guilin and Yangshuo.
So far, vacation was humming along pretty close to on schedule, and I was happy as a lark. The bus pulled into the heart of Yangshuo around 12:15. Yangshuo was the other big part of the first half of the trip. As I mentioned, the plan was to spend 5 nights in this corner of the province, so I had two nights here in Yangshuo.
Yangshuo is also getting a lot of attention as a travel destination these days, and is supposedly getting pretty crowded (though it didn’t feel crowded to me…not after living in some of the world’s major cities for the past 5-6 years). Yangshuo is one of those types of towns that people in the Pacific Northwest of the US or Colorado would love. (Yes, I’m being intentionally stereotypical.) What I mean to say is…this is an active person’s paradise. Yangshuo is rapidly becoming one of the top destinations in the world for rock climbing. People come here to be active. Most are younger, outdoorsy, athletic types…and Yangshuo probably has as many foreigners as locals most of the time.
In general, people will come here and set up base camp at any of the number of hostels, guesthouses, or hotels in the area. (I chose the Yangshuo Outside Inn, about 6 km west of Yangshuo, on the banks of the Yulong River. It’s run by a Dutchman – Ronald, I believe – and his Chinese wife. An old farmhouse that they converted into an inn, and it’s absolutely charming with the most wonderful service. I’ll gladly stay there if I get back to Yangshuo someday.)
At whichever hostel you choose – and since, like any small tourist spot with an overflow of guesthouses fighting for business, the rates tend to be low, and they try to offer services (travel packages, bike rentals, advice, arranging taxis, doing laundry, whatever you want ) to attract customers – you will probably be pleased with how little money you spend. I can only tell you that the Outside Inn had a terrific restaurant, bike rental, laundry service, rooms with AC, without AC (ceiling fans and mosquito nets instead), and suggestions for local and regional travel.
The village of Yangshuo is very small (and congested). There’s quite a bit of nightlife on Xi Dajie, since most who visit here are young and energetic. You’ll find all kinds of restaurants, bars, clubs. And surrounding this very small downtown are huge karst hills that look like gumdrops popping out of the ground.
During the day, rent a bike and ride to and from the nearby towns like Fuli (9 km to the east) or Xingping (about 20 km northeast). You can do things like take bamboo boat trips up and down the Li River (bigger and congested) or ride a bike along the Yulong River among the small villages and farms. Climb Moon Hill, go find caves, just…get outside.
And at night, come back, unwind, and relax downtown on Xi Dajie or enjoy the award-winning light show on the Li River that they have every night (weather permitting) that world-famous movie director Zhang Yimou (who also did the light show for the 2008 Beijing Olympics) put together for about 200 RMB. (I am sad to say, though, that I did not go see the light show. There may be another trip to Yangshuo for me yet…)
So what about my Yangshuo experience? Well…I checked in to the Outside Inn around 1:00 on Tuesday afternoon. Not wanting to waste a minute, the first thing I did was rented one of their bicycles, and hopped out on the road heading along the Yulong River. I joined up with two Chinese ladies, and off we went. We got separated later (because they were stopping every two seconds), though they were nice, friendly, and helpful. The bike was fine, though the seat felt like I was sitting on a brick. After arriving at the Dragon bridge (our original destination), I stayed there for about ten minutes. Right before getting there, though, I stopped at a roadside cafe, trying to wait for these two ladies for about 30 minutes. They never materialized, but I had an interesting time talking with the guy who owned the shop. Just sitting, drinking water, and passing the afternoon in the middle of nowhere.
The bridge was one of the most underwhelming bridges I’d seen. I don’t even think I photographed it. The surrounding scenery from atop the bridge, though, was quite nice (and is represented in this set). Climbing back on my bike, I worked my way the 90 minutes back to the hotel, feeling like my backside had been violated, and was black and blue. Since the temperatures were nearing 35 degrees, and it was a clear, sunny day, I figured it was time for a nap.
My ambition to get out early turned out to be the only real mistake I made this entire trip. On top of very slight heat exhaustion, I missed the most amazing sunset I’ve seen in China. The entire sky had turned every shade between deep purple and royal blue imaginable (which would have looked GREAT from next to the river), but I woke up about 1/3 of the way through that evening’s sundown and had to watch it tearfully between trees with only glimpses of the sky. At least it’s in my memory. I hoped the following night would be a repeat of this one, but, unfortunately, it was pretty much clouded over and didn’t photograph terribly well. Oh, well…lesson learned.
After a good night’s sleep, I woke up early on Wednesday to start exploring Yangshuo proper and the Li River, after staying exclusively on the Yulong River the previous day. I walked the 6 km to town. Well…about 3 km, then took a san lun che (“tuk tuk,” for those who’ve been to India) the rest of the way and just told the guy to stop…wherever. I got out, started wandering the main drag, and booked an afternoon tour of the Li River on a bamboo raft that would go from Xingping partway north on the river, then back to Xingping. (We would go to Xingping by bus and get stuck on the two-lane road coming back in terrible traffic). I still had quite a few hours to kill in the morning, so I wandered around Xi Dajie, and made it down to the riverside, where I booked yet another boat to go around the Li River. The first one cost, I think, 160 RMB from what I remember. This one was 100 RMB, but it was a bit of a lie. I had to hop on back a motorbike and we rode the 9 km to Fuli (a surprisingly nice little shopping area for souvenirs), and that boat was not an open-air bamboo raft, but more like…a very small cruise ship where you sit inside a cabin.
The ride wasn’t unpleasant at all – and the scenery was stunning – so I can’t complain too much. Besides, I did need to find a way to pass the morning, and this did just fine. After the boat and motorcycle ride back to Yangshuo, I had lunch, then went to the first place where I booked a boatride.
That really was a bamboo raft…the kind that’s canopied, and seats 4 people to a boat. So after the coach took us up to Xingping and dropped us off, we hopped on and had a ride for about 20-25 minutes up this stretch of the river (slightly more scenic than the section near Fuli), and then made our way back down to the starting point.
After the bus ride back to town, we got back around 6:00. I took a taxi to the hotel and, as I just mentioned, hoped to have a nice sunset (though my optimism has sunk after watching the afternoon sky start to cloud over). At any rate, I went out and found a place near the farmhouse…just in case.
With no good results from that sunset shot, I packed up my gear and spent the evening relaxing at the farmhouse with dinner, then back in my room reading. All in all, I had been very pleased up until this point with both Dragon’s Backbone and Yangshuo. Thursday morning didn’t need me to start too early. I also knew it would be a travel day, and I wouldn’t be shooting much (if at all). But, at least I’d see the Guangxi countryside, not quite knowing what the rest of the province looked like. It would be a pleasant and interesting day, I soon learned…
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