Smoky air+ Heat+ Vietnamese coffee

Although we are not that closed to those wild fires, we still can see the smoke clearly and sometimes we can see the fire lighting up the mountains at night.
Air quality is really bad and heat makes me dizzy and sleepy.
Only thing can save me now is Vietnamese coffee and I am going to make another one now.









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wilkintie _ beautiful letterpress art prints.
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summer table



no knead bread + homemade pineapple compote+ yogurt + pecans




tomato from friend's garden+ delicious plums from market ( it smells like rose)



tomatoes from our garden

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I have a big deadline coming up in a week so bear with me. I will come back soon.

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Leaves printing workshop with Mitsuru koga at Tortoise



we went hunting for leaves which we thought we were going to do leaf cutouts but actually we were printing with leaves and not cutting them.

Koga san demostrated how to print with leaves.






These are the envelopes he made with the leaves printed paper. He let us pick one as a gift from him. Sweet! His prints are so delicate and so nice. It captures the most beautiful grain and texture of leaves.





These are the ones I made, and I love the ones with grass.




In tortoise you still can see some of the sea stone vase and sculptures by Koga san. The are so fine!


(see it bigger)


(another view)

The leaf cutout art from Koga san.







It was a very nice work shop!! I'm glad that I went. It was so nice to meet Koga san.

Carving & carving is
what I have been doing!







It's a carving and watermelons summer for me. That's why I don't post enough lately!

LEAF CUTOUTS -Mitsuru Koga Exhibition in tortoise.
I will go check this show and also attend the leaf cutouts workshop.

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A simple Sunday morning breakfast. it was a gray day. not much light and no shadows.

Since we have a California native plans garden so we don't have any flowers are blooming now. All the popies are dried out and waiting another reborn next spring. Sage's flowers are so subtle. They bend in the whole landscape. This makes me a little bit sad. I want some colors!!

Thanks to the newly planted herbs, dills and Asian basil. Some flowers are blooming in our back yard. They are still very tiny but I think next year they will grow bigger and better.






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like to read through small stump photo dairy , so many beautiful flower arrangements...

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