Author Archives: deceptivelyblonde

On the Parapet!

Posted in Animals, Cityscape, Landmark, Location, Nature, Republic of Korea (South Korea), Subject, Suwon by

While walking along the wall yesterday, I saw a pair of pet parrots on the parapet 😂😂😂 No lie! 😄🐦🐦

When Calls the Wall

Posted in Building Exterior, Cityscape, Flowers, Location, Republic of Korea (South Korea), Subject, Suwon by

It’s a Tough Life!

Posted in Food, Random Cuteness, Republic of Korea (South Korea), Seoul by

😨😨😨 POOR EGG!!!

No Parabolic

Posted in China, Location, Random Cuteness, Subject by

😂😂😂😂 Looked it up. . . Parabolic means of or relating to a parabola (a symmetrical open plane curve formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to its side. The path of a projectile under the influence of gravity ideally follows a curve of this shape).

Not sure how ‘littering’ turned into parabolic, but there we have it! 😜😜
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A Spot of Cheer

Posted in China, Flowers, Location, Subject by

Forbidden City in Winter

Posted in Art, China, Location, Subject by

😍💕 My #student surprised me with this today – she painted it herself and framed it for me The forbidden city in winter (cause she ‘knows I love snow’). Isn’t that A) gorgeous and B) the sweetest. I will treasure it!
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Sanjusangendo

Posted in Art, Japan, Location, Subject, Temples by

This is part of the #Sanjusangendo temple. These are replicas of the deity Kannon. Kannon has 1000 arms, so each statue has 42 arms in rows of 25 (to cover the 25 planes). Altogether it means it represents the 10000 arms. They each also have several heads. Supposedly they have 10 heads with which to see human suffering and 10 times that many arms with which to eliminate human suffering. They are protected by the statutes of the warriors (most of which are deities from the Hindu faith–i.e. Braham is a guardian of the Kannon here, but the God of Creation in Hindu). There are hundreds of these and they date back to the 1200s.
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