New Favorite Film: Choking Man

My new fav - "Choking Man" Dont let title distract you. It is not a horror or a terror film. Rather it shows the softer side of human emotions in our diverse society. The "choking man" is named after the required safety poster from health board in every restaurant. The story begins there.

Overflow creek RI Flood aftermath

Rushing body of water and the sign of crispy green leaves popping out the creek.
Frenchtown Road: Creek. Fortunately, no sign of damages in the area.

Todays' and Yesterdays' Textures

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RI Floods: the calm after the storm

Just yesterday ( March 31, 2010), the water level rised and several low basin areas were overflooded due to the overwhelmed quantity of storm water. Here is the peaceful aftermath of the flood by the Rhode Island shoreline. Normally, this beach along the Narragansett Bay has small waves rolling against the shore. The bay/ beach is calm and it looks more a lake.

The beach was smoothed out with the water raised from yesterday. Smooth sand, few footprints and a hard edge of water line @ the roots.

Crocheted Neclace with Ribbon

After long time from not making anything, I got inspired from an old wooden sewing box. Inside, there is tons of tons little treasure from "back" in the great days of sewing. A pair of three level of stocked wooden draws fanned out like an accordion. It's great! You see everything in each wooden draws.

There inside are a couple spools of crocheting threads and one very very fine crochet hook. It scribed #14 (in this scale, the hook is finer with the number growing bigger, see picture below). And I found a edging ribbon for clothing edges. Not sure what is intended.


With the help of a great lady from the great days of sewing, Mrs. Buchman helped to crochet a pearl-shape form, ~3/8" diameter sphere for my necklace. She spent 20 minutes or so, figuring out for the corrected stitch to make a little sphere.

Making 5 spheres (~3/8" in diameter), using some #8 crochet thread.


Needle: #14 (very very small)
Pattern:
1st row: 7 chains (looped the end ch (8th ch) to the 1st ch); 1 dc
2nd row: 3 ch on 1 loop below (repeat twice for each chain below. here you are increase.); 1 dc
3rd row: 3 ch on each loop below (no repeat); 1 dc
4th row: 3 ch on every loop below (skip every other loop below--7 strands); 1dc
5th row: 1 dc

lizard visits @ Zoo

The past weekend, I went to bio-sphere dome with the theme of: Madagascar in the Zurich Zoo. It is free wandering forest environ with free wandering people and free birds and free monkeys jumping above our heads ( no cage, no fence). I found one of the beautiful wanders, hiding behind the bushes and leaves. There are three lizards that are found during the curved wander through the forest.

Tree Protectors: Comp Idea

Bamboo: Cone


Bamboo: Tunnel

Bamboo: Tunnel (context)


Bamboo: Wall Enclosure








Stone: Pavement


Built Environ: Bench