Breakfast at Liffany's

Here is a beautiful breakfast spread arranged by my dear friend L. So pretty and civilized! Now we can chat over tea and jam and jelly in our faux British accent! So, how do you do?

Food Glamour Shots

Food pictures from this weekend; as you can tell the macro setting of the camera was in overdrive!






After all this, L's friend said I must have tape worms, because it is physically impossible for a little petite woman to eat this much and remain skinny, and when I answered in the negative, she said then I must have a tape snake! Ahhhh! So unfair, some people just have high metabolism!

Zzzzzzz...

Hello all! Not much to report lately, going to DC tomorrow, really need a change in scenary. Too bad I missed the cherry blossoms there. So pretty. In the mean time, I am gonna catch some zzzzzsss... Note to self: remember to tuck in the fluffy tail...

My neighborhood coffee place...

Only if I were still a student, I'd be able to take afternoons off, grab a cup of hot chocolate, read a book, and watch people come and go...besides the barrista is kinda cute, hehe...

Yep, that's the antique typewriter I use to type out all my mystery novels while I sip on the hot chocolate... The Adventures of Cat the Detective! The first installment -- Murder in West Los Angeles! I am looking for a publisher and I am sure it will appear on Amazon soon...

Freedom from Want

I was bored today so I went and opened up all the usual shopping sites and as I stared at the screen, I realized there is nothing I need and nothing I want. I've got everything... reminded me of this Rockwell painting -- Freedom from Want. But unlike these people, I would never turn my head away from food, weirdos...

My Heart's Yearning...

A village by the river, plow the land, cook, eat together in the court yard, have family, raise kids... after dinner, sit outside and chat with neighbors...simpler times...a world lost forever...

Limestone Pinnacles line the Li River
George Steinmetz/National Geographic Image Collection at www.nationalgeographic.com

Happier Times...

Pretty photos from a trip to an area in Yunnan Province that borders T11bbeet... sigh, why can't we all get along?

Colorful T11beetan prayer flags in the wind... so pretty!

Inside a T11beetan Monastery -- I was kind of embarrassed to disturb the monks so I took a picture of an empty hallway.

T11beetan women selling stuff..

Large prayer pagoda

Meili Snow Moutain -- with T11beetan prayer pagodas in the foreground.