Women hui Dajia (大甲). Xiao-Mifeng han Xiao-Xuan yaoqiu tamende mama dai tamen chumen "sanbu, san-san xin" (散步、散散心). Yushi, wo zhuazhu shiji, paixia-le zhe jifu "Dache Gongcheng Hao Doufeng" (單車共乘好兜風) de jingtou! ...
2019年1月29日 星期二
Bicycling (單車共乘好兜風)
#2019-0129
Women hui Dajia (大甲). Xiao-Mifeng han Xiao-Xuan yaoqiu tamende mama dai tamen chumen "sanbu, san-san xin" (散步、散散心). Yushi, wo zhuazhu shiji, paixia-le zhe jifu "Dache Gongcheng Hao Doufeng" (單車共乘好兜風) de jingtou! ...
Women hui Dajia (大甲). Xiao-Mifeng han Xiao-Xuan yaoqiu tamende mama dai tamen chumen "sanbu, san-san xin" (散步、散散心). Yushi, wo zhuazhu shiji, paixia-le zhe jifu "Dache Gongcheng Hao Doufeng" (單車共乘好兜風) de jingtou! ...
2019年1月6日 星期日
The Epiphany, 2019
#2019-0106
Yummy, yummy, yummy! -- Thanks to Tina (Pan) for preparing so yummy food for this morning's Coffee Hour at St. James'.
You know, today is January 6th, on which the Epiphany falls. Epiphany, also known as Little Christmas or Three Kings' Day, is a Christian feast day that celebrates the revelation of God incarnate as Jesus Christ.
It is an important "feast day" today. In our church the feast of the Epiphany (顯現日) initiates the Epiphany season, also known as Epiphanytide (顯現節期). This season should be very meaningful and significant, too. May our Lord Jesus Christ bless all the people in the world, whether they are Gentiles or not!
You know, today is January 6th, on which the Epiphany falls. Epiphany, also known as Little Christmas or Three Kings' Day, is a Christian feast day that celebrates the revelation of God incarnate as Jesus Christ.
It is an important "feast day" today. In our church the feast of the Epiphany (顯現日) initiates the Epiphany season, also known as Epiphanytide (顯現節期). This season should be very meaningful and significant, too. May our Lord Jesus Christ bless all the people in the world, whether they are Gentiles or not!
2019年1月3日 星期四
昨天 ● 今天 ● 明天 (Time for Resetting)
#2019-0103
What a quiet "home base" just for us two! And what a peaceful night! ... While walking at a leisurely pace, Jean held her iPhone in her hand and started listening to The Epistle to the Romans. But I didn't listen to my favorite "Bible Audio App" this evening; instead, I spent most of the time looking around and thinking. Since last night, I have been looking back (on the past) and looking forward (to the future). And some of my thoughts have been transformed into the photos below, which I'd like to share with you, my dear friends.
= = =
- "What's your new year's resolution, my dear?"
- "Well, I had a dream last night, and ..."
What a quiet "home base" just for us two! And what a peaceful night! ... While walking at a leisurely pace, Jean held her iPhone in her hand and started listening to The Epistle to the Romans. But I didn't listen to my favorite "Bible Audio App" this evening; instead, I spent most of the time looking around and thinking. Since last night, I have been looking back (on the past) and looking forward (to the future). And some of my thoughts have been transformed into the photos below, which I'd like to share with you, my dear friends.
= = =
以下五張照片拍攝於
2019 年 1 月 2 日
拍攝地點：
霧峰家附近的
「籃球場／遊樂區」
= = =
以下十張照片拍攝於
2019 年 1 月 3 日
拍攝地點：
第一張在國姓老家
其餘九張在六號國道
= = =
以下六張照片拍攝於
2018 年 11 月 3 日
拍攝地點：
前三張在餐廳「老地方」
後三張在國姓家後面的園地
2019年1月1日 星期二
2019 愛您依舊 -- Loving You as Before!
#2019-0101
Happy New Year! ... In Mandarin Chinese the number 2019 sounds like "ai nin yi jiu" (愛您依舊, meaning "still loving You"). Young people love to use this phrase in a romantic way; are you curious about how an old couple (like Jean and me) spent Yuandan, the very first day of the year?
An entire year ago, Jean and I went to McDonald's to have breakfast; that was the way we celebrated the previous Yuandan (on January 1st, 2018). Now both of us remembered that, and we decided to do it again for this New Year's Day.
However, just because I overslept this morning -- it was already 9 o'clock when I got up. Jean said she was so hungry that she would not walk out to McDonald's for breakfast; actually, she didn't say she was hungry; she told me that she felt uncomfortable with her stomach. "Oh, dear! What do we have to eat at home, then?" I asked. She said, "We have danbingpi (= egg-pancake pastry) and dan (= eggs) in the refrigerator. Are you able to make some danbing (= Taiwanese egg-pancake, shaped like a crepe) for breakfast?"
"Sure, I can make it," I exclaimed with excitement. I have never done cooking since I got married. But since this is the first day of 2019, I would try something new; I'd like to make danbing at least, at this special time, as Jean wished. (She always wished that I could have started learning to cook, in case ...) Well, look at the 2nd and 3rd photos below, and you'll know I was right when I kept telling my wife that "pēngrèn bìng fēi nán shì" (= cooking is not difficult). Ha ha!
Anyway, later in the morning, Jean and I took a walk in the Memorial Park of Taiwan Provincial Assembly; and then we had simple lunch at Niu Jia Zhuang (牛家莊; photos 4 and 5 below showing the decorations of the noodle bowls). And after taking a nap at home, we went to the dried paddy fields near Asia University Hospital and enjoyed the beautiful (and colorful) flowers growing over there in this particular season. See photos of "garden cosmos" below, which we call pōsī jú in Chinese. By the way, we missed our children and grandchildren so much on this particular day that we tried to talk with them in the evening, by means of videophone (see the final 5 photos).
Thanks and praise to the Lord, who let us have a really wonderful day today; may the Lord continue to guide us in 2019, so that we will do what is right: "ai Nin yijiu; still loving you, or loving you as before!"
An entire year ago, Jean and I went to McDonald's to have breakfast; that was the way we celebrated the previous Yuandan (on January 1st, 2018). Now both of us remembered that, and we decided to do it again for this New Year's Day.
However, just because I overslept this morning -- it was already 9 o'clock when I got up. Jean said she was so hungry that she would not walk out to McDonald's for breakfast; actually, she didn't say she was hungry; she told me that she felt uncomfortable with her stomach. "Oh, dear! What do we have to eat at home, then?" I asked. She said, "We have danbingpi (= egg-pancake pastry) and dan (= eggs) in the refrigerator. Are you able to make some danbing (= Taiwanese egg-pancake, shaped like a crepe) for breakfast?"
"Sure, I can make it," I exclaimed with excitement. I have never done cooking since I got married. But since this is the first day of 2019, I would try something new; I'd like to make danbing at least, at this special time, as Jean wished. (She always wished that I could have started learning to cook, in case ...) Well, look at the 2nd and 3rd photos below, and you'll know I was right when I kept telling my wife that "pēngrèn bìng fēi nán shì" (= cooking is not difficult). Ha ha!
Anyway, later in the morning, Jean and I took a walk in the Memorial Park of Taiwan Provincial Assembly; and then we had simple lunch at Niu Jia Zhuang (牛家莊; photos 4 and 5 below showing the decorations of the noodle bowls). And after taking a nap at home, we went to the dried paddy fields near Asia University Hospital and enjoyed the beautiful (and colorful) flowers growing over there in this particular season. See photos of "garden cosmos" below, which we call pōsī jú in Chinese. By the way, we missed our children and grandchildren so much on this particular day that we tried to talk with them in the evening, by means of videophone (see the final 5 photos).
Thanks and praise to the Lord, who let us have a really wonderful day today; may the Lord continue to guide us in 2019, so that we will do what is right: "ai Nin yijiu; still loving you, or loving you as before!"
訂閱：
文章 (Atom)
