The Wilds Of Taiwan: October 2004

Saturday, October 23, 2004

file magazine : a collection of unexpected photography

I am just posting this as a test. I have a new function on my computer which allows me to right click on a webpage that I like and then select "Just Blog It" to put the link in my blog. Pretty handy. This particular lnik is great. Browse through the galleries - plenty of interesting photos for creative inspiration......
file magazine : a collection of unexpected photography

Friday, October 22, 2004

The Terrible Trio - upon closer inspection

Here's a cropped version of that photo I posted last week.

Graffiti near art museum

I suppose if you are going to do graffiti, you may as well do a good job of it. This is near the art museum which is open again.

Thirsty plant

It looks like this plant has grabbed the hose and is hoping that its owner will take the hint.

Moon festival

Things just getting underway on the street outside Mr. Hong's tui-na place.

Moon festival was also Mr Hong's birthday

Moon Festival happened to fall on the same day as Teacher's Day this year and it was also Mr. Hong's birthday so we all got to stuff our faces with ice cream cake. The tui-na therapy room on the first floor became a temporary kids play room and cake scoffing area.

Feeding of the five thousand

Mr. Hong, the tui-na master, rubs salt into a fish ready for the barbecue.

The neighbours' moon festival BBQ bash

Large quantities of Taiwan beer were swilled and spilled that night.

"Why is Mummy sitting on a potty?"

K and Mrs. Wang who used to babysit J.

Moon festival sparkler

I can't believe I forgot to put up some pictures from the Moon Festival celebration. When we got back from the bash at K's Tui-na place, many of our neighbours were still merrily barbecueing away and they invited us to join them.

Making OJ

With J's help (where's Superman when you need him?) we eventually squuezed ourselves two and a half litres of juice and we only used maybe about a third of the oranges.

Sqeeeeeeeze !

Awash with oranges

Oranges are very cheap at the moment. These small, thin-skinned oranges are very sweet. This little lot swimming about in our bathtub only cost NT$100.

Bugs on the windscreen

And staying with the insect theme we came across these beasts drying out in the midday sun which was also near that Japanese restaurant. A special ingredient being prepared perhaps?

Wasp nest

One of the houses along our street is being decorated and we stopped by on our way back from the new Japanese restaurant that's opened nearby to have a look. I spotted this wasp nest which one of the workers assured me was abandoned. The workers let us into the house to have a look around and I snapped this pic by opening the window and sticking my camera around the corner.