Just like that, the sakura are gone, and everything is green again. Finally getting some pleasant days, nice weather like early summer in Seattle.
This morning was windy but sunny, a good Saturday to start off Golden Week. Then these clouds rolled in, bringing lightning, thunder and rain.
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Sunday, April 22, 2007
the evil continues
The game: Each player of this game starts off with ten weird things or habits or little known facts about yourself. People who get tagged must write in a blog of their own ten weird things or habits or little known facts as well as state this rule clearly. At the end you must choose six people to be tagged and list their names. No tag backs! (Thanks Courtney and one thing that is probably not a little-known fact about me any more is that I am a major procrastinator).
When I was little, I wanted to be a ballerina. As a grown-up, I still want to be a ballerina! (or, bizarrely, a shepherdess)
I can do the splits. I'm very bendy.
I dropped out of high school my junior year, but managed to graduate from college on time. Go Huskies.
When I was 17, I spent four months going to high school aboard a schooner, starting in the Caribbean and ending in Boston. I hoisted sails, took noon sites, said argghhh, and got a fabulous tan and toned biceps. One of my favorite memories: sailing into Gloucester and waving to my Grandmother and great-Uncle and Aunt as they stood on their front lawn on the water, waiting for my boat to come in. Before that, I spent three months living on the Navajo reservation in New Mexico, teaching kids at a BIA school, going to sweat lodges, making silver jewelry, hiking at White Sands, herding cattle on horseback and getting lost atop mesas. It was a great year.
The ocean scares me.
I could eat kabocha every day and never tire of it. Same goes for yogurt.
I don't like beer. I like red wine and bourbon on the rocks.
I enjoy singing in a chorale and hope to someday sing Mozart's "Requiem" again like I did in college. I am a second alto. I have also been known to do imitations of Fergie from the Black Eyed Peas.
The moment before I fall asleep and the second after I awake are two of my favorite times of day.
Conan O'Brien is my hero.
i tag: gina r, dan t, yuko m, beau m, mayumi o and mariana m.
When I was little, I wanted to be a ballerina. As a grown-up, I still want to be a ballerina! (or, bizarrely, a shepherdess)
I can do the splits. I'm very bendy.
I dropped out of high school my junior year, but managed to graduate from college on time. Go Huskies.
When I was 17, I spent four months going to high school aboard a schooner, starting in the Caribbean and ending in Boston. I hoisted sails, took noon sites, said argghhh, and got a fabulous tan and toned biceps. One of my favorite memories: sailing into Gloucester and waving to my Grandmother and great-Uncle and Aunt as they stood on their front lawn on the water, waiting for my boat to come in. Before that, I spent three months living on the Navajo reservation in New Mexico, teaching kids at a BIA school, going to sweat lodges, making silver jewelry, hiking at White Sands, herding cattle on horseback and getting lost atop mesas. It was a great year.
The ocean scares me.
I could eat kabocha every day and never tire of it. Same goes for yogurt.
I don't like beer. I like red wine and bourbon on the rocks.
I enjoy singing in a chorale and hope to someday sing Mozart's "Requiem" again like I did in college. I am a second alto. I have also been known to do imitations of Fergie from the Black Eyed Peas.
The moment before I fall asleep and the second after I awake are two of my favorite times of day.
Conan O'Brien is my hero.
i tag: gina r, dan t, yuko m, beau m, mayumi o and mariana m.
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Shinonome sakura
The night before, a fierce rain and windstorm was screaming through Shinonome. The blossoms got pretty roughed up, wrinkly and beginning to turn brown at the edges, but there is still nothing like the sight of blooming sakura.
Sunday, April 01, 2007
Silvie
I was in the States with the two family kitties when the scary news broke about canned pet food causing kidney failure in cats and dogs.
Thankfully, Silvie and Atomik are picky eaters and prefer katsuobushi and tuna to cat food, so they were out of danger.
Silvie did have to go to the vet for an unrelated procedure, and had this funny blue collar on when we brought her home.
She was totally cool about it but it freaked out Atomik.
Thankfully, Silvie and Atomik are picky eaters and prefer katsuobushi and tuna to cat food, so they were out of danger.
Silvie did have to go to the vet for an unrelated procedure, and had this funny blue collar on when we brought her home.
She was totally cool about it but it freaked out Atomik.
atomi
our beloved, three-legged, utterly unique Atomik.
He is the best thing to hug, weighs the same as a sack of potatoes, soft like velvet and sooo warm.
He likes to roll around in the driveway and is often covered in dust.
He is the best thing to hug, weighs the same as a sack of potatoes, soft like velvet and sooo warm.
He likes to roll around in the driveway and is often covered in dust.
parrot tulips
from a bouquet I took to Grandmom on my second-to-last day in DC.
they take my breath away!
they take my breath away!
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