Day 3475: Farm girl.

 

 

"Farm girl": photo, junk mail collage & digital.

 

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Update ...

I started the day off with an invitation to breakfast from two special friends.  I have always admired both, and when the invite came to spend time with them, it made my day. We met at ...

 

Snooze is a very popular and trendy restaurant, especially with the young and restless, only open 6:30- 2:30. Landyn and Sam are the young and restless, I guess that makes me the chaperone? Snooze is known for terrific food offerings. I am going to show you our combined choices, as always for extra credit you can guess who had what? Lisa always guesses and is usually right. The amazing pancakes were to share.

 

 FYI: the brown hockey puck looking round above was their version of hash brown potatoes, delicious!

 We arrived at 10 am and at 12:10 we suddenly realized we had 20 minutes to make it to Karate class in Santa Ana. Thank goodness for freeways and only mid-day traffic, we made it. There was lots of talking during the two plus hours, you know the kind when all three share a love of the same topic. The best Tuesday morning in memory.

Sam, chaperone, Landyn.

Thank you both for making my day!

 

 

 

2GN2S 

 

The Japanese Bush Warbler, or uguisu, has such a lovely call that it's birdcall (hohokekyo) has become commonplace in Japan. The Warbler's call is known to signal the arrival of Spring and begins in mid-February in Southern Japan but won't be heard in the North until the end of April.

"Plum Warbler" (1940) by Koitsu Tsuchiya (courtesy Ohmi Gallery)

The woodblock prints of Tsuchiya Koitsu (1870 - 1949) are notable for their dramatic use of light and shadow. He didn't become successful until around the 1930s when a chance encounter with the shin-hanga movement led Tsuchiya to begin producing landscape prints in the shin-hanga style. He went on to design various prints for publishers in Toky

 

 

 

 

 

A cute 9-minute video, Crunch, here.

 

Just because ...

 

 

Japanese White-eye

 
 

 

Smiles for Wednesday ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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