Ugly and Adorable

 

Annabelle Tubbs III 

Jin Shan

 Japanese culture echoes through this mining area.

 Festive sakura greet the crystal blue sky.

 A steep walk to a Shinto shrine proves two things...

1. The Japanese are masters of using nature to their advantage.
2. My use of HDR is terrible and I regret that this is the only photo I took of these columns.

Delicious Organic Foods

Vibrant greens at my friend's place near Zhishan.

Adventures in Marmalade

 I picked off all half to mostly yellow fruits to make a big old batch of marmalade this time...

  
花了差不多兩小時去籽和榨汁；手指都開始因為裡面的酸度而刺痛了。
It took about two hours to juice and remove the seeds. My fingers were burning from the acidity.

因為用的是較生的金桔，所以煮出來的顏色比較深，但風味也比較好；味道更有獨特的酸的風味。
Because I used the greener oranges, the color was darker but the flavor was better. Much more tart and tangy.

Banqiao By Bicycle

新北市有類似UBike的腳踏車系統，顏色是好看的藍白相間。
New Taipei City has adopted their own U-Bike program with a more desirable blue on white scheme.

Walkways

忠孝東路在永春站附近的全景照。
A panorama of Zhongxiao E. Road near the Yongchun MRT Station.

Chinese New Year Day on Elephant Mountain

今天人很多，但天候很適合柔光攝影。
Tons of people today but the weather conditions were ideal for soft lighting photography.

一個學院的院子裡有個奇怪的騎著馬的雕像。
 A strange statue of a man on a horse in the courtyard of a school.