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Yes let's meet autumn as our mid-autumn festival is coming! Things do converge mysteriously with or without you knowing or seeing, finding the connections is no big achievement but brings small pleasures to our lives.

 

I was in Seoul 2 weeks ago meeting Mr. Nam who's company Appree just launched "Leaf-it" and already shipped to Japan's Marcs International for distribution. The leaf post-it comes in 8 different types, each with various sizes and colors of leaves. I hope they are coming to our stores soon.

 

Two days ago I received a Mackinaw Autumn package from Field Notes, another hint of autumn coming, in colors I'm so very in love with. I regret that I missed their summer collection (Butcher Orange, Butcher Blue, Grass Stain Green). Hmmm.... so Tradio Nature just came to me, Leaf-it and Mackinaw Autumn are both on my desk now, they are all here to set something in motion, the welcoming of our 3,000 years old tradition, mid-autumn festival.

 

Tasty moon cakes await us, beautiful lanterns hanging all over the places, family gathering dinner and Chiu Chau tea ceremony at home..... such a pleasant anticipation. I particularly like what the shops do on Queen's Road West, about 5-6 stores normally selling incense for worship now hang hundreds of lanterns so beautifully which lighten up the streets. I was there with family on Sunday night, people were there lingering in such warm atmosphere. Tomorrow we will definitely go the park with our lanterns.

 

PS. My son told me something funny this evening: "God has no time to talk to us, because he has to make up some homework for us, so God is very difficult and we have to thank Him". Where did he get the ideas?

 

More on Scription blog: moleskine.vox.com/library/post/meet-autumn.html

It is quite useful if there is a calender on the fieldnote. I put an Easy Calender on the end of my fieldnote. For the recipe, see here. Next-3-month-calender is enough because I usually finish single fieldnote in a month.

Tools of the Trade 06

[Abel Chapman's Sudan sketchbooks]

[between 1913 and 1919]

biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58160412

My Field Notes Poney Express Pouch after a couple years wear and tear.

"Fieldnotes"

Sorrel, lime.

 

Manresa

Los Gatos, California

(December 1, 2013)

 

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[Abel Chapman's Sudan sketchbooks]

[between 1913 and 1919]

biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58366744

One leads to the other.

Although the road is never ending

take a step and keep walking,

do not look fearfully into the distance...

On this path let the heart be your guide

for the body is hesitant and full of fear.

~Rumi

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When I was high school student, a teacher of Japanese language taught us that "find a book that bears for reading three times". It is still rare for me to meet such a good book, but I'm trying to find them.

 

I put stamp on a book each time I read it. What I see is the "history of reading". :)

"I never knew a town could die and people would keep on living there."..."Kind of like ghosts, huh?" Sam said and laughed ..."Be careful you don't turn into a ghost while you're here." -Stanley Gordon West, 'Blind Your Ponies'

 

This is the abandoned Masonic Temple of Galata, Montana. It sits at the very western edge of the ghost town. The building looks quite old but the interior looks like it was last updated in the 60s.

 

Galata is almost a complete ghost town. There really are no more businesses open. Only a few homes are still lived in. This town has an interesting history and there are so many abandoned buildings that I would love to know the story behind.

 

Here is a video from when I drove through this great ghost town:

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0R55_f-ndA

 

"Galata, east of Shelby, is near Willow Creek, one of the streams that flows into the reservoir created by Tiber Dam. It was a trading point and cattle shipping station on the Great Northern’s High Line. In 1901 David R. McGinnis, first immigration agent of the Great Northern Railroad, was so impressed by the beauty of the spot that he filed a claim for the land near the railroad where it crossed dry Galata Creek. McGinnis hired a surveyor to lay out a town and the following year brought carpenters and lumber from Kalispell to build a two-room house.

 

Cattlemen from the Marias River ranges brought their cattle to Galata for shipment to eastern markets. On cold winter days they were glad to have the protection of the two little rooms in the only building in “town.” The house burned down in 1904, but in 1905 McGinnis began rebuilding Galata. He built a two-room real estate office and an eight-room hotel, and eventually induced a storekeeper to set up shop in one of the rooms of the real estate office. Ranches would drive in with a chuckwagon and load up on $500—sometimes even $1,000—worth of supplies, pay in cash and return home for the long winter. After a few years, Galata’s only merchant closed shop and the hotel was abandoned; McGinnis gave up his dream of a town and moved to Kalispell.

 

One day he was surprised to receive a check in the mail. It was marked “back rent,” and was from a cowhand who had moved into the deserted Galata store and had done a good business with dryland farmers who were then settling on the old-time open range. By 1910 Galata had four lumberyards and five store. (from Cheney’s Names on the Face of Montana, Mountain Press Publishing Company)

 

Near Galata, residents and visitors can enjoy one of the most versatile recreational areas in Montana, Tiber Dam-Lake Elwell. The lake provides excellent year-round angling for Walleye, Northern and Sauger Pike, native trout, Ling, Perch and others. Some may want to try their hand at bow fishing for carp that often exceed 20 pounds. For boaters and swimmers the area boasts over 50 miles of shoreline, a marina, and four well-maintained boat ramps located strategically around the lake. There are also numerous campground areas.

 

While you're at Tiber you'll observe spectacular windblown sandstone formations, Indian rings, and one of the largest earthen dikes in the world! The area surrounding Tiber contains excellent hunting, and a unique birdwatching area is located along the Marias River below Tiber Dam." -Montana's Russell Country Website

 

This is a great article, just scroll town to the one titled “Caught between two worlds, one dead, the other struggling to be born.”

 

www.montanaheritageproject.org/index.php/fieldnotes/C77/

 

This is a link to a neat photo taken near Galata many, many years ago:

 

www.smokstak.com/gallery/showimage.php?i=1330&catid=m...

I found this pouch several months ago. It's made by the North Face brand. I guess it is designed for passport. But it does fit for the Kokuyo Fieldnote exactly.

Talking Leaves: How to Identify American Trees.

Dailyshoot: The printed newspaper isn't as common as it used to be. Find a newspaper today and make a photo any way you like!

Pocket dump picture with Northwoods Hawthorne Jack slipjoint knife in red linen micarta, Hinderer Investigator Pen in copper, Prometheus Beta QR V2 brass AAA flashlight, Field Notes notebook

Testing various different inks and pens in a new Field Notes steno pad. I am not very impressed.

Airbus A320, Field Notes and my wonderful Field Notes-size case by Popov Leather ... a perfect combination!

Various pictures to illustrate an upcoming pencil shootout for photographers

I probably did these bad (and not-to-scale) sketches with a medium tipped pen, not this fine (ha!) one.

www.pragmatik.org

Field Notes Steno Notebook & Rotring Rapid Pro

From the "airshow" screen on our flights, additional notations by me.

Time-stamping is kind of routine work, especially for fieldnote. I recommend to use rubber stamp for this purpose. The format makes increase visibility, same effect as using label-printer. I bought it at 100 yen shop ($1 shop).

 

See also :

- Ayalan's stamp

- Craftman's Electric stamp

- Foxcalf's Electric stamp

- Aki's stamp

My own set of everything to date. Minus the elusive and rare "Butcher Blue"

[Abel Chapman's Sudan sketchbooks]

[between 1913 and 1919]

biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58366755

Design by Stephanie Vochatzer

 

(totally sucking up)

I made address and phone list as well. Once I make it, I can reuse it. I use 6pt to 7pt tiny fonts for the list. Listed here are myself (in case I drop this fieldnote), my parents, my company, supervisor, colleagues. Keep minimum.

[Abel Chapman's Sudan sketchbooks]

[between 1913 and 1919]

biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58158519

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