To Weeb As No One Has Weebed Before
I went to the botanical garden a few weeks ago, for the Japanese festival. It was pretty nice--they had a display of bonsai and ikebana out, and all of them were absolutely gorgeous. I've never seen so many bonsai in one place before, and I'd never considered how useful branches could be in flower arrangements before seeing the ikebana. They make the arrangements much more dramatic, and make them seem to flow much better. And since it was the botanical garden, they had all sorts of interesting flowers used in the arrangements.
I got my own flower arrangement base and have been practicing. It's not great weather for it, since most of the year's flowers are gone, but I've done a couple attractive arrangements. Here's one below:
And here's a professional one:
I also went to the zoo, since I was in the area. There was a delicious looking gazelle:
There's something about just how delicate they looked, and that they were acting just a little bit nervous, that set off the metaphorical dinner bells inside my head. Yum.
Also these guys were cute:
There were some cheetahs, but I couldn't get good pictures of them because the trio was lounging around in the shade fifty meters away from me. They did what cats do best and slept for the entire time I was there. The snow leopard and the Amur leopard were not sleeping, they were pacing around... looked like both were interested in each other. The Amur leopard was mostly interested in shredding their neighbor's ears, given how they hissed every time the snow leopard walked by; in comparison the snow leopard was far more polite.
Other news? Didn't get the job I was hoping to get, which sucks. I really thought I had that one.
I got my own flower arrangement base and have been practicing. It's not great weather for it, since most of the year's flowers are gone, but I've done a couple attractive arrangements. Here's one below:
And here's a professional one:
I also went to the zoo, since I was in the area. There was a delicious looking gazelle:
There's something about just how delicate they looked, and that they were acting just a little bit nervous, that set off the metaphorical dinner bells inside my head. Yum.
Also these guys were cute:
There were some cheetahs, but I couldn't get good pictures of them because the trio was lounging around in the shade fifty meters away from me. They did what cats do best and slept for the entire time I was there. The snow leopard and the Amur leopard were not sleeping, they were pacing around... looked like both were interested in each other. The Amur leopard was mostly interested in shredding their neighbor's ears, given how they hissed every time the snow leopard walked by; in comparison the snow leopard was far more polite.
Other news? Didn't get the job I was hoping to get, which sucks. I really thought I had that one.