a series of early Autumn pics

Yellow leaves on the greenery;

cleaned path treaded by footprints unseen;

little flowers smiling in the soft wind;

a new sprout still grows out without knowing winter time is coming.

Memorial of my grandfather

   Tomorrow is the Chinese festival Chong Yang Jie.  I am thinking of my grandfather. He was a Chinese Medicine Practitioner, lived in Guang Zhou and immigrated to Vietnam in the Second World War. His clinic flourished well there and he became quite rich. However, the good condition did not last long. There was anti-Chinese movement in Vietnam and his children all went away, some to mainland China and some to Australia. My grandparents hid a lot of gold into the walls of their house. Now it is no longer our family's possession. Riches is just like a swift of wind that flow away quickly.

  My grandfather came to Hong Kong in the late seventies. By that time he smoked for quite a long time. My dad asked him to stopped smoking in letters. I remembered this quite well. He must be smoking very heavily. We were soon allowed to come to HK after my grandparent's settlement here. I saw my grandfather for the first time and felt he was a generous, warm grandpa. He would take my cousin and me to restaurants, taking food that I have never tasted before in mainland. He took us to the Ocean Park, seeing dolphines and buying hats for us. I also remembered doing the health exercises for pupils ( a series of exercise that must be done in morning by mainland students)  in front of him. He enjoyed watching me doing this very much. Those were such sweet memories.

  Happy days past fast. After a few months of family reunion, my grandfather was diagnosed to have bladder cancer. It was at the termial stage. He was in and out of the hospital very frequently. We kids went to hospital like playgrounds. Near the Chinese New Year, my grandfather was seriously ill. The doctor told him that if he can held his urine, then he could go home.  So he kept refraining going to the toilet. He became uremic and past away. ( I am not sure whether this was the exact happening, just putting the pieces together).

  On such a night, the memory of this loved one put me to tears.
月有陰晴圓缺,人有悲歡離合;
但願人長久,千里共嬋娟.

My cousin, me and my sister in 1986

我表妹手里拿的是葫芦

小花一朵

Draw with artstudio lite

another peek into the mini-world

水珠的啟示

一滴晶瑩的水珠,比珍珠更明亮,讓我想起聖經也說野地的花比帝王的衣裳還要美麗,祢的創造令我默然無語。

小草的狀況危殆!

a hot summmer afternoon

beautiful small flowers

These manificent pictures are got from the jelly lens of my iphone.

一組小草

Spring images

blueberry cake

These are one of my more successful trials. The recipe can be find in Carol's blog. Well, as usual I made some modification, using blueberry this time.

Flower of Lamma Island

Very simple painting

made some fun with drawing again.

tiny autumn fruit

image of early autumn

The leaves are still green....

Sprouts are coming out from tree branches ...

The ground is already coated with golden clothes made by fallen leaves....

The sky is especially clear over the clean treetops.

fruit colors

What is more enjoyable than having fruits and tea in a leisure afternoon?

Vermicelli in egg

Just made the vermicelli in egg following the recipe from Masa' site with some modification. I used vermicelli, crabmeat, mushroon and onion as the content this time.

Returning back

After 2 years, I am returning to this site again to share photos, good food and fun times. Welcome! Here are some photos token last saturday afternoon using the new DSLR

camera.