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Improvement: skies were hazy and gray...Unbelievably STRANGE, EERIE, SCARY like a scene on Mars!9/10/2020 Yesterday, the skies were eerie orange The above 3 images were taken at 1015AM and the one below at noon.
Our family in San Mateo are experiencing heat, smoke and orange skies... UNCERTAINTY Stay safe ... Sending your our aloha~ What is the benefits of eating dragon fruit?
Dragon fruit is high in vitamin C and other antioxidants, which are good for your immune system. It can boost your iron levels. Iron is important for moving oxygen through your body and giving you energy, and dragon fruit has iron. And the vitamin Cin dragon fruit helps your body take in and use the iron.Jun 24, 2020 Bows & Beans Okra Eggplant Pasta Dragon fruit for dessert French toast for morning break Guava-banana-pineapple-mint smoothie
After a 3 day weekend, it's a Dragon Fruit day with Hawaii's COVID cases now down to 66 cases!9/8/2020 Lightly stir fried white bittermelon with oyster sauce and garlic then topped with egg. Garden fresh moringa leaves and purple basil
bring out the delicate taste of the Enoki mushrooms. combined with pasta with olive oil and dash of dashi. Garden herbs on foccacia bread
tomatillio, green pepper, tarragon, Cuban oregano, eggplant, okra, rosemary, moringa, Italian parsley and basil on homemade basil-moringa walnut pesto. Wow, a big assortment of Chinese scrolls, mainly from Kunming, China. The locale where our son learned tai chi, brought it home to us in Hawaii advising ken and me, "Maybe, this is something good for you to learn!" Here's a good down sizing formula I am using this morning:
Keep only 1/2 the number you have! Stylist ken has given the best cut in his 5th time to cut lucy's hair short, like she likes wearing it! I really believe this is our NEW normal since I haven't been at Lee's
in Chinatown since February, about 7 months ago! Ken manages to not only cut my hair, but he also crew cuts his own! Now that we don't go anywhere anymore, and ppl rarely recognize us with our mask, face shield and goggles on, home styled hair cuts are A-OK! It's even okay for filming tai chi for YouTube & Olelo broadcasts for that matter! ken & lucy aquired this beautiful Chinese painting
when we traveled to Hong Kong while stationed on Guam. This four panel screen is a favorite of ours for over 50 years. It was our dining room center or focus, hanging so nicely, enriching our rosewood furniture Bringing us joy, uplifted spirits and postive energy... Great Feng Shui! It is probably one of our biggest investments in art work! A little sad to let it go, but we've had many, many years that it's enriched our family so hopefully it will do the same for someone else! Wikipedia says: A combination of lacquer techniques are often used in Coromandel screens, but the basic one is kuan cai or "incised colors",[8] which goes back to the Song dynasty. In this the wood base is coated with a number of thick layers of black or other dark lacquer, which are given a high polish. In theory the shapes of the pictorial elements are then cut out of the lacquer, though in screens where a high proportion of the area is taken up by the pictorial elements, some method of reserving the main elements and saving expensive lacquer was probably used. The areas for the picture elements might be treated in a variety of ways. The final surface might be painted in coloured lacquer, oil paints, or some combination, perhaps after building up the surface with putty, gesso, plaster, lacquer, or similar materials as filler, giving a shallow relief to figures and the like. It's Aloha Friday which marks almost 180 days or 6 months of sheltering at home! We try to look around us and see how we can down size our "junk" in our home! Today, I spent the morning, researching and posting our artwork we acquired on trips to France, China, Vietnam and Guam-Yap-Palau in Micronesia. Below are a few examples: Ken learned from watching YouTube
how to remove mildew from a nice painting, too! |
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