Saturday, November 27, 2010

FAREWELL TO FALL 2010

Autumn is drawing to a close and the first Sunday of Advent is here.  It was a lovely fall, full of color and light, and a wonderful Thanksgiving.  I love the rich red and orange of this tree.

Cabbages in a garden, all trussed up and ready to harvest.  It is the season for making kimchi, so I think that these cabbages are destined for marinating in red pepper sauce so they can be eaten all winter long.

Haystacks - made from the rice grass left after the rice was harvested.

Layden serving soldiers at the mess hall.  Just about every Thanksgiving, he puts on his dress uniform and participates in making sure the soldiers get a tasty meal.  It is a good spread - Thanksgiving dinner is the showcase meal for the mess hall and they put their best efforts into it.  This year there was roast beef, ham, shrimp, of course turkey, stuffing, all sorts of things like sweet potatoes and beans and cranberries, and lots of pie.  Layden really enjoys this military tradition.
We had a similar meal at our house with several people who really enjoyed a home-cooked meal and good company.  It was a great day.

It is hard to imagine that fall went so quickly, but it did.
Wishing all of you a very merry Christmas season.

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Sunday, July 26 2009

Sunday, July 26 2009
Remember this sign?
We have learned something really interesting about this "welcome sign" which we thought was a big billboard that was pasted onto an old overpass. It turns out that this is a defensive emplacement known as a rock drop. It is a big concrete box full of rubble and rocks. In the event of an invasion by North Korea the panels underneath the drop will be opened and release the rubble across the roadway, hampering movement into South Korea.

SOLAR ECLIPSE!

SOLAR ECLIPSE!
Might look like the moon - but it's the sun!
On Wednesday July 22 Asia experienced a solar eclipse and we got to see it! Miraculously the expected day of monsoon rain did not materialize and the sky was mostly clear for the duration. During the eclipse, which occured around 11:00 a.m., the sun was much too bright to view directly - we had to be satisfied with reflected images. But, as the sun began to re-appear, just enough clouds came in to allow us to look - and take a picture. It was quite something to behold and we feel lucky for the opportunity.

On A Clear Day...

On A Clear Day...
We had 2 days of church meetings in the Seoul area. Today the weather was remarkably clear and I was able to get a great view of the city skyline and the radio tower. Usually the sky is too hazy for a view like this. Pollution, rain, high humidity or dust storms are contributing factors.