“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” ~ Joan Walsh Anglund.
Finally bite the dust
Hand knitted sweater from 30 years ago, huge sentimental value. Casualty of Typhoon Nepartak. Sat in the damp closet (leaking wall) for over a month. It was mouldy and this is what’s left of it after a wash!
Awapuhi from JPMS Awapuhi farm in Hawaii
The roots I brought back from the farm that Paul Mitchell started years ago in the Big Island of Hawaii, now thrives in our farm in Taitung. 
One fruit harvest
We had one peach, the one and only fruit. Now only one mango. At least there’s one fruit, better than none.
Rice Harvest summer, 2016
Naked House
Highland
Magic mushrooms?
Edible? Better not according to my neighbour Feng Ting. This is 馬勃菌. It is poisonous.
On site meeting
Construction work is all about solving problems and making decisions. This time it is about the doors and door frames. I imagine very tall doors eliminating the door frame while the site supervisor thought he had to build the concrete wall to frame the door.
穗花棋盤腳 開花了 Part 3
By the time we got home at 7pm, all the flowers had opened except one. We got to witness the magic moment. The main action lasts around one hour and full bloom is two hours.
Didn’t have a tripod so pardon the shakiness in this time lapse video. I hand held the iPhone for about 40 minutes.
穗花棋盤腳 開花了 Part 2
6pm
8.30pm
The action was between 6pm and 8.30pm and we completely missed it! Thought there were more blooming to come so we got the chairs, made some tea and waited for two hours and nothing happened. Let’s hope we will catch the action tomorrow. 
8.30am (12 hours later)
2.30pm (18hours later)
Lobster treat
I have never cooked lobster before. Neighbour gave me 10 baby lobsters. They are still alive! Seems a straight forward steps: boil water, dump the lobsters into pot, cook until ready (lobster turned red). Let’s give it a try.
They are still alive!
3 minutes only and they are turning red.
4 minutes. They are cooked.
What is it going to be, lobster bisque or Chinese style lobster rice porridge with spring onion and ginger?