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It’s Already There
Today is Full Moon Day, lunar August 15th, to Chinese, it’s like Thanksgiving in the western world. It’s harvest moon, we celebrate our harvest by eating moon cakes with the family. Moon cake is round like the full moon, resembles the fullness of family, a returning towards the family, a complete circle. No edge, no…
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Season’s Greetings
Things going through you, they never take you seriously, why do you take things seriously? Be it a puzzle or trouble in life. Once I did a random post, and for whatever reason, got 1.5K likes. I used to think those people who can casually draft a post and draw thousands of likes must be…
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Hello September!
I saw the first tarantula this year, it seems like fall is really here, even though Indian Summer still lingers. Fall is the mating season for tarantulas, they walk around actively looking for their mate. This tarantula climbed on a tall blade of grass, slid down like an acrobat, entering the deep grass and disappearing…
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Columbia after Dark & a Letter Caught in Time
We went back to Columbia State Historic Park, a gold town of the 1850’s in the Sierras. I was touched by two highlights from this trip. The first is the original hand written Chinese letter from back in 1850’s. It was a letter from a son to his family back in China. From the writing, he…
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The First Pomegranate
After a long, exhausting day, I finally was able to sit in the yard to relax into the beautiful summer night. I noticed the first pomegranate on our tree was so ripe it even popped open, exposing all the inside red seeds. I picked it up to give myself a treat. I opened the pomegranate…
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Coloma – Discovery of Gold, Business, and Life
We went back to Coloma yesterday. There’s something here I felt connected to: maybe it’s the Sierras, maybe it’s the discovery of gold, maybe it’s the serenity after the madhouse of the gold rush. While standing in front of the Sutter Mill, where in 1848 the first gold flake was found that started an era; how…
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Pinecrest Lake
山雨欲来风满湖 天突然黑了 森林里的风横扫一切 人群散去 热闹的湖边安静下来 正遗憾来得不巧 在失望中品着冰淇凌 冰淇凌吃完了 天又慢慢地亮晴了 八月的天 孩子的脸 山上的树林在夕阳下灿烂着 孩子们又回来了 带来了叫声和笑声 湖上划起了一条小船 雨后的夕阳映红了山和湖 宿营地篝火飘起缈缈炊烟 这时湖畔传来了”教父”的主题曲 悠悠的曼德拉前奏 夹着波浪冲岸的水声 这一刻 一切都那么和谐完美 宁静而丰盈 忽然被这个世界的美好 感动: 生命中美好的东西 总是在你最不经意的时候 最没有准备的时候 悄然而至 又稍纵即逝
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Life doesn’t Offer Reservations
This was yesterday’s sunset at the Costco parking lot. When we were done shopping, walking out, saw so many people stopped and looking up, admiring the burning sky, some taking out cellphones to grab the shot. Originally I was hesitant, there’s no scenery, nor landmarks to make it dramatic, it’s just a busy parking lot,…
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Full Moon Walk in the Mountains
I took my first full moon walk at Joseph Grant park. It was from 8-10pm, led by two rangers. We were half an hour late, fortunately we caught up with the group just before dark. There were about 15 people, from kids to seniors, some with fancy night vision light (which l learned is a…
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Eastern Sierra – God’s Playground
Here is where it feels home to me! Where the highest point in continental America meets the lowest; the natural erosion shaped boulders in different sizes spread in the Owens Valley in the most random way, we’re talking size of a house or even bigger, with the backdrop of High Sierra peaks chiseled by ice…