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Singapore September Week-End
I am just back from a three day week-end in Singapore, a city I lived in during 1988.
They have a knack for organizational ideas in Singapore . . . not all of them are winners across the genders.
I came for the food and photography. Here I am in front of the Hua Yu Wee seafood palace. It doesn't look like much . . . but . . . . . .
. . . the chili crab was from heaven. Devine!
It was also Moon Cake Festival time in Singapore.
Moon cake comes in all kinds of flavors, fillings, and types.
Part of the fascination with moon cakes are the boxes they come in . . . the boxes scream, "Special!"
The boxes are often very beautiful.
We brought along an extra suitcase along just so we could bring back the very best moon cake available in Singapore for family and friends back in Bangkok (where, my wife says, the moon cake is inferior).
Singapore is also known as the Garden City: every square foot of it is gardened, tended, trimmed, and mowed. The flowers are fantastic.
The ubiquitous tropical Bird of Paradise is to be seen everywhere.
Even the wilting and drying buds of the Bird of Paradise are beautiful.
Actual living grasshoppers are a testimony to "not too much" chemical insecticides.
A tiny orange world on a hedge row.
These flowers were so very tiny.
New Growth In The Garden
It is nearing the end of the Wet Season here in Bangkok, so the garden is alive with new growth!
Such shapes!
An unfurling of redgreen.
Memories of Fukuoka, Japan
I am using a new method of processing my photos: first in Camera Raw, then to JPEG. I like the better clarity and control of this method.
A shop in Fukuoka, Japan.
Ready for our meal at our hot springs inn.
Sticky Red and Redish Stuff You Can Eat in Bangkok
Shiny and furry red things you can eat from a Bangkok street market.
Something of a color that sends the message "don't eat this" that you can eat from a Bangkok street market.
Could be sugar glazed cherries that you can eat from a Bangkok street market.
Maybe these are the glazed cherries that you can eat from a Bangkok street market.
Memories of an Italian February
In February of this year I went on a tour of Northern Italy; Milan, Venice, Verona, Florence, and Rome. I returned to a very busy work schedule and have only now really looked at my photos from that trip. Here are a few more of my favorite memories. For even more photos of Italy, including past vacations, go to my Italy section link in the Travel Photo Bank.
Inside The Doge's Palace of Venice.
It was wonderful to be in Venice for Carnival on such a beautiful day.
Naples is not the only city in Italy with a fantastic galleria - Milan has the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II! Very Steampunkt, no?
Ah Rome! The Trevi Fountain. Where are my three coins?
The interior of St. John's Cathedral, Rome.
In the Church of the Catacombs, Rome. (Hand held, low light.)
Although Rome is a modern, bustling city, there are ancient Roman ruins everywhere.
The Roman Coloseum.