2014年5月30日 星期五

阿里曼 Coffee

#2014-0530B

「阿里曼人文咖啡館」在彰化縣芬園鄉嘉東街 557  巷 138 號。這是親自造訪後,才上網查到的地址資料。原先用車子裡的導航系統,可查到「阿里曼」沒問題,可是車子來到嘉東街一百多號附近,就會說:「目的地已抵達!」我們在嘉東街往返[來回]試了兩三次,都是如此,明明聽到「抵達」卻看不見「目的」,只好停下車來問路啦!

再上網查詢,發現 Google 地圖所標示的「阿里曼」位置沒錯,但地址寫成:彰化縣嘉東街 138 號。是不是省略了「557巷」幾個字,就讓我車子的 GPS 找不到「阿 .....」的芳蹤呢?

會想到來「阿」不是沒有原因的。我的大妹、二妹和么妹,經常利用「空檔」時間相聚於此,來個愉快的下午茶 ---- 不!她們喝咖啡,是 Coffee Hour 才是!她們常在 Facebook 上面,張貼照片,分享三姊妹又來到「阿」(偷得浮生半日閒)的美好經驗。她們到同一個地點,這麼多遍,都不厭倦,可見「阿」真的有魅力啊!----「我也要到『阿』喝杯咖啡。」我心裡這麼說著:「而且一定帶家人一道去!」說著唸著,講出口了,今日也化為實際行動了。只是,小孫子喝的不是咖啡 (Little Bee is still too young to drink coffee!)。
















上圖:奶奶看著鏡頭,搶鏡頭(掌鏡)的爺爺看著小蜜蜂,
小蜜蜂看著(像槍的)門把!爺爺用什麼拍照呢?
....答案在就在圖中。Could you find it out?


賞蓮 (The Lotus)

#2014-0530A

Jintian dai Xiao-Mifeng dao Zhongxing-Xincun shang lian. Lianhua ye jiaozuo hehua. Kan na! Hehua duo-duo kai, er cuiluse de heye cong tade qianhou-zuoyou (shenzhi hua dixia) chentuo ta piaoliang de moyang, zhen shi haokan jile.

Shang lian de shihou, wo xinli xiangqi yishou gulaode minge (漢 樂府 民歌):

江南可採蓮,蓮葉何田田!
魚戲蓮葉間;
魚戲蓮葉東,魚戲蓮葉西,魚戲蓮葉南,魚戲蓮葉北。

Women kanle lianhua/hehua, jiu qianwang A-Li-Man (阿里曼人文咖啡館) chi wucan le.













2014年5月23日 星期五

Peacocks, Ice-cream, and the Rocking Horse!

#2014-0523

Last year Jean and I took Little Bee to the peacock garden at Sun Moon Lake. We were all very interested in the beautiful birds kept there, especially the Indian peafowl (= blue peafowl) and the Formosan blue magpie. However, just because it was not in the blue fowl's breeding season when we went there last September, we didn't see any peacocks displaying their "trains" (or tails).

If you like, click here 日月潭孔雀園 for our previous visit in 2013.

Since then Jean had always wanted to give Little Bee a good chance to see peacocks display. She said that she had recently seen on someone's Facebook a few pictures of the Sun-Moon-Lake peacocks displaying their beautiful trains. "It must be the breeding season now!" She told me with excitement, "Why don't we take Little Bee there again? Let's go!" So we did, right away, this morning!

As soon as we arrived at Sun Moon Lake, it started to rain, and therefore all the birds in that Peacock Garden were kept indoors. I was a little disappointed at first. But then, like Jean and Little Bee, I was very pleased to see some of the peacocks displaying even in their cage-rooms.

Jean and I led our grandson to other interesting places also. We enjoyed seeing the lake in the rain. We sat at the lakeside and ate delicate ice-cream. And then we entered a fantastic store called Carton King (紙箱王:紙箱故事館) and rode on the rocking horses made of cardboard (= stiff paper). As you can see, we really had a wonderful time during our "outing" today!