This lazy Sunday ( I gimped my hand- no work possible) was capped by a visit to the nearby Songkwang temple. This was after a delicious meal, a meal so fine and special, that I want to photograph it and detail the delights in a blog post someday. The restaurant serves a vegetarian lotus lily leaf rice course and it overlooks the lotus ponds next to the temple. In brief, rice is steamed with various nuts and seeds in a lotus leaf, giving it its tea like flavour and extra stickiness. The sides included first time oddities like aloe, ginseng and dropwort tempura, pickled cockleburr.
After the meal, we took a stroll, I hoping for birds near the ponds( a sparrowhawk was observed- these predators are responsible for the disappearances of our pond goldfish ).
The fairly large well-known popular temple is about ten minutes from our house. Sundays are usually quite busy with buses of tourists, hikers and photographers. But at 7pm Sunday eve it was strangely vacant and we got to witness some enchanting drumming and serene bell ringing by the monks.
The fairly large well-known popular temple is about ten minutes from our house. Sundays are usually quite busy with buses of tourists, hikers and photographers. But at 7pm Sunday eve it was strangely vacant and we got to witness some enchanting drumming and serene bell ringing by the monks.
Introducing happiness!
Sweety , our new furry feline friend is fantastic! She's very social and more affectionate by the day. She loves the camera too and keeps her pose as long as you want. She hadn't been upstairs yet so i carried her up and it took an open can of smelly seafood treats to get her to come down, then she practiced the rest of the day, and found a nice spot by the window to relax.
Sweety , our new furry feline friend is fantastic! She's very social and more affectionate by the day. She loves the camera too and keeps her pose as long as you want. She hadn't been upstairs yet so i carried her up and it took an open can of smelly seafood treats to get her to come down, then she practiced the rest of the day, and found a nice spot by the window to relax.
About my hand: A thorn punctured the index finger knuckle while bushwhacking on Friday. The knuckle got inflamed and infected hours later while at the shop. The pain and swelling were intense Friday eve after visiting emergency. So I have meds and was given a ridiculous splint on Saturday which lasted all of 3 minutes- barely longer than it took to apply. It doesn't appear as much but is a numbing dull pain restricting movement. A suspected puncture of the tendon or ligaments is the cause of distress, and possible plant toxins.The doc put me on meds and immobilization of the finger/wrist for one or two weeks! See how that goes... very inconvenient. I'll wrap it up and try a few hours at the shop... the big rush of numerous orders has passed, but there are a number of commissions yet to complete, so I cannot really fully take the time off .
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