Smiles
October 30th, 2006, 22:08
Just took these photos yesterday a few blocks down the street from where I live and thought you'all might enjoy some non-Thai neighbourhood scenery to break up the views of tropical ocean sunsets, Sunnee back alleys, BKK traffic jams, Buddhist monks and GoGo boys.
These colours are most typical of a Canadian autumn but they don't last long.
Just last night we had a terrific wind storm and most of the golden & red leaves you can see here still stuck to their woody homes are now lying forlorn and wrinkled on the lawns and roads . . . as we speak being raked up by old humpbacked guys in the quiet traditional way, or being blasted helter skelter by that ghastly noisome and hellish instrument known as a leaf-blower ~ stickhandled by some young condo manager who has forgotten the joys of diving into gigantic piles of crunchy leaves as a kid: only a good old fashioned rake can produce those little leafy Everests.
Soon these trees will be bare, the temperature will have plummetted an I'll be wishing (dreaming) about the vast white beach of Hua Hin and environs lying under an umbrella beside the beloved who is studiously cutting his toenails and yapping on about why he thinks it's a good idea that he did not take the opportunity to buy one of these (seemingly) lucrative beach consessions a few years ago.
I hope you can enjoy:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v18/sawatdeephotos/Images/autumn6.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v18/sawatdeephotos/Images/autumn3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v18/sawatdeephotos/Images/autumn2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v18/sawatdeephotos/Images/autumn5.jpg
Cheers ...
These colours are most typical of a Canadian autumn but they don't last long.
Just last night we had a terrific wind storm and most of the golden & red leaves you can see here still stuck to their woody homes are now lying forlorn and wrinkled on the lawns and roads . . . as we speak being raked up by old humpbacked guys in the quiet traditional way, or being blasted helter skelter by that ghastly noisome and hellish instrument known as a leaf-blower ~ stickhandled by some young condo manager who has forgotten the joys of diving into gigantic piles of crunchy leaves as a kid: only a good old fashioned rake can produce those little leafy Everests.
Soon these trees will be bare, the temperature will have plummetted an I'll be wishing (dreaming) about the vast white beach of Hua Hin and environs lying under an umbrella beside the beloved who is studiously cutting his toenails and yapping on about why he thinks it's a good idea that he did not take the opportunity to buy one of these (seemingly) lucrative beach consessions a few years ago.
I hope you can enjoy:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v18/sawatdeephotos/Images/autumn6.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v18/sawatdeephotos/Images/autumn3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v18/sawatdeephotos/Images/autumn2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v18/sawatdeephotos/Images/autumn5.jpg
Cheers ...