Our neighbor, Uncle Rong, is a great gardener.
She Ain’t Heavy, She’s My Buddha.
Guanyin, a Goddess of Mercy and Compassion who’s name is short for Guanshiyin; meaning “Ovserving the Sounds (or Cries) of the World”, teaches: ‘色即是空，空即是色’
form is no different from empty,
empty is no different from form,
form is just empty,
empty is just form,
sensation, perception, volition and consciousness are also like this.
The Chi Shan Monastery (慈山寺) is not yet open to the public. Here Ms Guan is 76 meeters tall, bronze, more than double the height of the Big Buddha; built with a $1 billion investment from Li Ka-shing, the richest man in Hong Kong; and Jesus only just tops her on his tiptoes.
where we went way off road
Mok Tse Che - where we live
Mok Tse Che - where we live
On the boat to Yan Tian Zai
Kim, Princess, Paul James and John Von ( if I did not mix it up ... )
Early New Years Morning we joined the fireworks and the lion dancing.
This village is off the beaten path, traditional, and seems to have a lot of Red Ferraris’ parked around.
Watching New Years Lions Dance
Qiao Zui Dao means Bridge Mouth Island, I guess because when the tide is low there is a rock spit that you can walk across to a small island a few hundered yards away.
Brian, Sai Kung, Ma An Shan Mountain. Ma An Shan means horse's saddle, and across a small estuary at the north foot of the horse is a town called Ma Liu Shui, which means horse's piss. Daisy and I had our first date walking to the peak of Ma An Shan.
A view of Daisy and Sai Kung Town
We like to throw rocks — we like this beach too.
Way in the North East corner of Hong Kong
Way in the North East corner of Hong Kong
Way in the North East corner of Hong Kong
Brian, Marat, Grace, Philip, Daisy and I went to Gold Mountain looking for monkeys.
Jin Shan park ( gold mountain ) is a one thousand acre watershed, which is home to about two thousand Rhesus Macaque monkeys, and we must have found just about all of them monkeying around near the road on a nice afternoon.
Respected — Rhesus macaques interact using a variety of facial expressive, vocalizations and body postures, and gestures. Perhaps the most common facial expression the macaque makes is the "silent bared teeth" face. This is made between individuals of different social ranks with the lower ranking one giving the expression to its superior.
On stage at an Andy Warhol exhibit
Brian driving the ferry boat from Sharp Island to Sai Kung
The Седов, a Russian 4-masted barque rigged windjammer, stopped Hong Kong this weekend to refuel on her way around the world from Vladivostok.
The Седов’s maiden voyage in 1921 took her from Bremen via Cardiff, where she took on coal, to Buenos Aires; and despite bad weather, the journey from England to Argentina with holds full of coal took just 30 days. At that time she was world’s largest windjammer
Outdoor Cantonese Opera in Sai Kung as the New Year season comes to an end and spring begins
