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Potatoes to market
John S. Quarterman, Gretchen Quarterman,
Brown Dog, Yellow Dog,
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 31 May 2013.
www.okraparadisefarms.com/blog/2013/06/potatoes-to-market...
Digging to America by Anne Tyler
This book begins as the story of two infant girls adopted from Korea and evolves into a story of one of their grandmothers, which is really a story about learning who you are and where you belong.
Jin Ho and Susan are the children, adopted into two families in the USA. The families become close through the shared adoption/arrival experience, celebrating "Arrival Day" as well as various other conventional and non conventional holidays. Not only do the immediate families attend, but siblings and their families, grandparents and other relations. Susan's adoptive family is of Irani origin and Jin Ho's family is long time American, which leads to interesting gatherings and interactions. Through a series of events, Susan's grandmother and Jin Ho's grandfather become involved, which causes much questioning of identity: self, woman vs. man, expectations and assumptions, land of birth, land of adoption.
I found much to identify with in this book: the adoption of an Asian child, growing up in America, emigrating to a new country and the difficulty of fitting in and the questioning as to why, and the ultimate surrender to being a part rather than apart. I loved it.
The title comes from something one of the little girls says when they are digging and the old cliche about "digging to China" is said. She wonders if right then there are little girls in China "digging to America."
... is great fun. If you have found the first, you can't stop picking them up from the beach. And another and another and another and so on ... :-)
Am Strand nach Olivinen zu suchen, ist ein großer Spaß. Einmal angefangen, kann man nicht mehr aufhören. Und noch einen, und noch einen, und noch einen, und so weiter ... :-)
Adorable weevil digging its “snout” into the trunk of a tree in our garden. [Lower Blue Mountains, NSW]
3 more people dead in Bangkok last night. The situation's only going to get worse before it gets better. God help them all if the yellow shirts go through with their threats to start counterprotesting if the government doesn't bring the red shirts under control.
Jimmy Dean, Link and Frank attacking the chicken I prepared for them - they never fight over food - they share well.
Sometimes I feel shy about posting pics of my twins. It's just too easy to take pictures that show "life" in my eyes - they just serve it up for me. I think I should have to work harder to take nice photos... ;)
Face offs are a very physical part of hockey. Here Luke Johnson (37) squares off against Justin Kirkland (19) while Kevin Lankinen (30) keeps his eyes on the puck.
oh what fun Biscuit has digging out the ball from the sand :-)
like with foliage, grass or creek-side plants he likes to deliberately put the ball in so he has to dig and bite it out, even if he could easily just pick up the ball, the pawing at and pouncing on and general destruction of the foliage around the ball is so much more fun, it's cool when it bounces out like this too :-)
FORT CARSON, Colo.--Fourth Infantry Division Soldiers chop out shrubs to use for an obstacle at the Wilderness Road Training Complex in preparation for the Expert Field Medical Badge testing, July 29 through August 30. The obstacle, one of many of three Common Task Lanes, will require Soldiers to drag a litter patient through the mud and under the barbed wire, while reacting to simulated weapons fire and smoke. The CTLs will test a total of 40 common Soldier and medical kills.
(U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Wallace Bonner, 4th Inf. Div. PAO)