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teahouse


The Japanese Tea Garden was absolutely crawling with hordes of touristas yesterday, but you wouldn't know it from this snapshot, would you? Even the teahouse was packed, but you can't see the people in there in this shot.

I have a very special talent for framing things so that even when I am surrounded by people, none of them appear in the picture unless I want them to. Most of the time, I don't want them to. :)


Anyway, onward to today... now the weather forecast for the weekend ahead has changed, and they are saying it's going to rain from Friday onward, both down here and up on the North Coast.   So it looks like we will probably be cancelling our weekend plans to go to Fort Bragg and Mendocino.  No point going if we can't walk on the beaches and be outside most of the time and take pictures. :(

I will have to somehow get Joe to take ONE day off in April, a Friday or a Monday, though he says he can't do that.   But CRIKEY, he is back to working 50 or 60 hours a week again and it isn't right.  Supposedly that was all going to change (as in years ago already), but in my experience, some things never do.

Posted on Mar. 24th, 2008 at 12:03 pm | | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

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[info]cobaltika

what a gorgeous place. are those azaleas? i like to avoid people in my shots, too. and contemporary cars, too, if possible. for some reason those things make images too snapshotty for me. unless of course, one is photographing the people purposefully ... or the cars. or using them as compositional elements. sometimes that can be a good exercise if there is no escape from them.

does he *like* working that much?
Posted on Mar. 24th, 2008 07:23 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]judywatt

no he does not like working that much, he hates it. he had the same boss for 20 years, and that was better than it is now, but that boss left 6 years ago.

so for the past 6 years, he has had 5 or 6 bosses, like a new one every year - and has had to train them all, plus train people under him, plus do all his own work, plus now sit in meetings all day most of the week. that makes it hard to do anything else, so then he ends up having to work on the weekends to do all those reports he no longer has time to do during the week. gah.

anyway, cherry blossoms on top, and i think the darker pink flowers are azaleas, not sure though. i love the tea garden, but usually we go when it is not so crowded. we happened to be next door though and it was blooming and rachel wanted to go in as well, so we did - we couldn't have tea though because it was too crowded. i like to sit there and have jasmine tea and cookies :)
Posted on Mar. 24th, 2008 07:30 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]duccio

Once, many years ago, before they charged admission at all for the tea garden, I was going inside when I noticed they were doing maintenance on the entryway. The very large wooden columns near the doorway had developed cracks in them top to bottom, and a woodworker was driving a long wedge-cut spline of wood into the crack with a mallet. He then used a Japanese plane to cut the excess flush and I guess varnished it later. I watched and learned. Things like that fascinated me then, and still do.

A charcoal drawing I did there about a million years ago:
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Posted on Mar. 24th, 2008 09:47 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]judywatt

sound facinating.

and yes it was admission free until not that long ago... ten years maybe? all the good stuff used to be paid for by taxes and donations here, the museums and aquarium and zoo and all that.

but now most people don't want to pay for things like that through taxes anymore, but then they complain about the entrance fees too - but they can't have it both ways.

Posted on Mar. 24th, 2008 10:24 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply