Tea: the celestial beverage
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High-mountain tea or gaoshan tea refers to several varieties of oolong tea grown in the mountains of central Taiwan. It is grown at altitudes higher than 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) above sea level, and includes varieties such as Alishan, Dayuling, Yu Shan, Wushe, and Lishan. The high humidity and natural precipitation in the high mountain ranges of Nantou and Chiayi Counties make the region a suitable environment for growing tea plants. High Mountain Oolong is a tea that holds all of its original nutrients that are within the unfermented green tea. It does not hold the usual grass-like taste but due to the fermentation process that removes the harsh ingredients, it allows the tea to taste flavorful.
Over a bridge to the 99 peaks, Nantou County, Taiwan.
Nantou County is the second largest county of Taiwan. It is also the only landlocked county in Taiwan. Its name derives from the Hoanya Taiwanese aboriginal word Ramtau. Nantou County is officially administered as a county of Taiwan.
Its mountainous area makes it a tourist destination; Sun Moon Lake is located in this county. Other well-known areas of the county are Hehuanshan and Sitou. Notable cities in Nantou are Nantou City and Puli Town. The official butterfly of Nantou County is the broad-tailed swallowtail butterfly (Agehana maraho). Nantou's tung-ting tea is one of the most famous and high-quality oolong teas grown in Taiwan.
I always walk slower than my boss while hiking. :)))
In the trail to the Blue Dragon Waterfalls in Sun-Link-Sea Forest and Nature Resort, Nantou County, Taiwan.
Nantou County is the second largest county of Taiwan, located in the central part of the country. It is also the only landlocked county in Taiwan. Its name derives from the Hoanya Taiwanese aboriginal word Ramtau.
Its mountainous area makes it a tourist destination; Sun Moon Lake is located in this county. Other well-known areas of the county are Hehuanshan and Sitou. Notable cities in Nantou are Nantou City and Puli Town. The official butterfly of Nantou County is the broad-tailed swallowtail butterfly (Agehana maraho). Nantou's tung-ting tea is one of the most famous and high-quality oolong teas grown in Taiwan.
I was so surprised by meeting the tea terraces while we went hiking to the Golden Orange Tree Mountain trail last Sunday. It is a very original forest with very narrow and difficult paths.We even encountered a Taiwanese(Formosa) Black bear that day. To find this tea terrace, I felt I seemed to go to the wrong world. :-) How those farmers go so far here to plant them everyday by walk. That is why the Taiwanese Oolong tea is so fresh and nice to taste. :-)
But I saw the photos on Flickr and Instagram
Everyone seemed so happy with the ephemera
It was in a state of pure bliss that they gazed
Pretending they were’t just interested in selfies by cherry blossoms
I imagined visiting them myself
Sipping on hot oolong tea
Reading Kenzaburō Ōe in the bathtub
My own silent cry
The shadows on the wall grew
Like one long human stamen
I thought maybe my identity would slip away
Just a glimpse for now then gone tomorrow
I got up and paced with a film of memories on my fingertips
Wondering if the cherry blossoms would even bloom again
Maybe this could be the last year for them.
Who knows what might happen next
This world is strange
Nothing is permanent anymore
We cannot count on the delicate
Which can be a personal matter.
I thought of them slowly trampled until
vanishing as part of the grass
Mistaken for a weed
as children race across green
On a cold winter’s night as a child
You wonder while seeing your first sigh leave your body
Becoming a night ghost
Will it ever come back to you?
Or will it remain a disappeared thing until at least the next year?
**All poems and photos are copyrighted even when the photos are blurry and the words don't make sense**
Lugu Township, Nantou County, Taiwan. Oolong Tea is original from here, you should have a try. :-)
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AN8, NR87 and NR88 twist through the curves at Oolong as they head for Sydney with a late-running 6PS7 from Perth.
Owing to the failure of NR87 at Quandialla. AN8 was sent light engine from Parkes to rescue the train and assist it to Sydney.
Monday 25th January 2021
8234 and 8163 roll through Oolong as they head for Stockinbingal with the Manildra Group blue containerised grain train to Stockinbingal from Enfield as 1321.
Monday 1st March 2021
SSR102 and SSR101 twist through the curves at Oolong with an export run to Port Kembla as 8940N from Gilgandra.
Monday 1st March 2021
Heading empty through Oolong, NR30 and NR31 make their way towards Goulburn with Journey Beyond Rail's seasonal "Great Southern" as 6KT8 from Adelaide to Brisbane.
During the wet season in the Northern Territory, "The Ghan" does not operate from Adelaide to Darwin. Instead, the same carriages are rebranded and used on this train during December/January/February. This was the 10th tour scheduled to operate out of 12 for the period.
Saturday 4th February 2023
BRM001 and RL306 pass through Oolong with 9843 empty grain to the Coonamble line.
2023-03-23 SSR BRM001-RL306 Oolong 9843
8207, 8163 and 8234 twist through the curves at Oolong, heading for Enfield with a load of grain from Stockinbingal as 3122N.
Formerly used to import grain from Canada during years of drought in Australia, these all blue containers are now being used as a southern rake to collect grain for the Manildra group in Nowra.
Tuesday 2nd March 2020
Elizabeth F. Gamble Garden, Palo Alto.
Camellias were in fine form yesterday on our brief visit.
Keep this lovely garden in mind when visiting the Stanford-Menlo Park-Palo Alto area. Admission is free, plenty of free parking -- and it's a great place: www.gamblegarden.org/visit-us/
10 minute drive (in normal traffic) from Stanford Medical.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camellia
"a genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae. They are found in eastern and southern Asia, from the Himalayas east to Japan and Indonesia. There are 100–300 described species"
And en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camellia_sinensis
is the plant that yields tea!
"White tea, yellow tea, green tea, oolong, .... and black tea are all harvested from one of two major varieties grown today, C. sinensis var. sinensis and C. s. var. assamica, but are processed differently to attain varying levels of oxidation with black tea being the most oxidized and green being the least."
My usual morning beverage. I'm finishing a cup of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapsang_souchong as I type this. Many varieties!
The highest tea estates in India are found in and around Munnar, in the hill ranges of Kerala's Western Ghats.
In the wild, tea bushes can grow to three or four metres in height, but on the plantations they are kept to waist height by plucking the top leaves for tea.
The leaves are plucked by hand by women carrying baskets on their backs. The leaves are sorted into different classifications, depending on how they will be processed, ultimately becoming green, oolong or black tea.
Munnar, Kerala, India. February 2015.
44202, 8044 and 8037 head through Oolong towing a full load of grain from Narromine to Cooks River as 8112.
Saturday 27th March 2021
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Tea for three...
Il rito del tè.
Tè verde cinese, molto delicato, dal particolare sapore di latte e vaniglia ( esposto nella sua essiccazione ai vapori del latte, il Milky Oolong ). Tempo di infusione : 3 minuti.
Ogni tipo di tè ha il suo tempo e una temperatura particolare dell'acqua.
Dopo il 'romanzo Quirinale', si passerà allo spettacolo 'virologi' o direttamente a Sanremo?
Una sala da tè a La Spezia, Liguria
A kind of Chinese green tea with the flavour of milk
NR84, NR64, 8104 and 8033 fly through Oolong with 6NY3 to Whyalla.
8033 was on transfer to Broken Hill to swap with another 80 class as the shunter.
Friday 20th November 2020
Working up the grade out of Jerrawa Creek into Oolong, 4532, 4917, 4911 and CLP12 smile for the cameras with grain train 1KV2 to Allied Pinnacle at Maldon.
2020-08-11 SSR 4532-4917-4911-CLP12 Oolong 1KV2
NR79, NR15 and NR116 make up the now normal triple NR lash ups on Brisbane-Melbourne superfreighters.
Ended up not being able to move from Oolong as the plan was to head back to Sydney, and these trains were all a section apart so just waited here to tick them off before heading back.
2023-03-23 Pacific National NR79-NR15-NR116 Oolong 4BM4
Qube Intermodal 1311 to Bomen passes through Oolong with a triplet of QBXs, QBX002, QBX005 and QBX006 make up the noisy power.
2023-01-25 Qube QBX002-QBX005-QBX006 Oolong 1311
enjoying a lovely cup of oolong tea with lemon meringue pie and relaxing to piano jazz.
...what a view 💋
CM3303 and QBX005 work patchily loaded 1311 containers to Bomen through Oolong on the Main South Line.
2023-03-23 Qube CM3303-QBX005 Oolong 1311