Light: Fountain flash (week 3,20/365,shinsato)

Light: Fountain flash (week 3,20/365,shinsato)
Originally uploaded by hajush

The fountain in front of the art museum next to the Fairmont hotel in downtown Vancouver is frozen in the flash from my camera.

Life: Commuting to the border (week 3,19/365,shinsato)

Life: Commuting to the border (week 3,19/365,shinsato)
Originally uploaded by hajush

To get to Business Objects Vancouver from Seattle, I had to travel Interstate 5 to the border. It was amazingly easy getting across, but the Peace Arch border crossing is essentially a criss cross of dirt roads due to construction, beware.

Light & Love: Moon in trees (week 3,18/365,shinsato)

Light & Love: Moon in trees (week 3,18/365,shinsato)
Originally uploaded by hajush

A simple picture of the moon in the bare winter trees around the stream that runs through our land. They're wild trees that are full of wildlife that we love a great deal.

Life and Light: This is a green art piece.(week 9,60/365,jreyes)

Life and Light: This is a green art piece.(week 9,60/365,jreyes)
Originally uploaded by jmoisesreyes

So this is one of my first paintings from 3 years ago. The concept of this painting was to initially just start with a background and some how create an image from the background. So I made a face on the right hand side and I made a woman sitting with her face near her knees. I think I called it "Green Longing-ness" but I don't know what else to call it. Anyways, it is Tuesday and it is my sharing of art day. BTW, I am almost done with the James Brown piece. I am pretty excited about that one. My teacher said, I made a mature painting. I guess I was a little "green" three years ago. Literally and figuratively.

Life: This is 3 Hershey's Bars for the price of 2.(week 9,59/365,jreyes)

Life: This is 3 Hershey's Bars for the price of 2.(week 9,59/365,jreyes)
Originally uploaded by jmoisesreyes

So it was around 4:45pm and I was craving for a snack. I went to the vending machine and I saw that the only thing I was wanted was a Hershey's bar. I haven't had a Hershey's bar in a long time at least 4 years. Anyways, I put in my change and the 1st candy bar got stuck, I was like dang it just my luck. So then I was determined to have a Hershey's bar. So I busted out a $1 bill and pressed for the same code for the Hershey's bar. And to my surprise it spit out my first candy bar, then a second candy bar, and surprisingly a third Hershey's bar. BTW, I only ate a half of one, but I will save the other two in my cube. Sometimes life is like that, you put in something you expect something, but don't get anything, And the times you try again and you get more than you expected.

Light: Artificial (3/365)

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. Took a walk around historic Sausalito today, and came across this nice looking lamp casing with a "candle" on the inside. Life would be so much different without artificial lights - we'd go to sleep soon after sundown, and be up at the crack of dawn. It makes Jesus' statement, "I am the Light of the World" all so much more powerful - without him, we can't truly see.

Life: This is a salad with apples and croutons.(week 9,58/365,jreyes)

Life: This is a salad with apples and croutons.(week 9,58/365,jreyes)
Originally uploaded by jmoisesreyes

This is a salad with apples, croutons, and salad dressing. My goal this year is to eat healthy, I am finally starting. The sickness lasted a good month which totally sucked! So yeah trying to eat more leafy veggies and fruits. I even cooked chicken today for meals which should last the whole week. I mean it is my version of chicken adobo. Just vinegar, soy sauce, salt, and pepper, which I put in the oven. This should also save some money. Eating out is expensive and the looming economic downturn makes me cook more rather than eat out. You know the economy is bad when engineers have to cook for themselves. ;-) Anyways, cooking for myself as a single engineer isn't that bad, just eating by yourself sort of sucks. I don't know there is just something always hauntingly lonely when you eat by yourself. People aren't meant to eat meals by themselves. I remember one day during my fall quarter freshman year in college and I ate lunch by myself before the class, I thought man this sucks. I didn't have my new freshman people I hung out with and talk nonsense with. And it was just really eerily sad to eat at a place where you didn't know anyone and was doubting your surroundings and your "belongingness" (making words up). Maybe it is a primal anthropological thing or perhaps like a sociology thing, but there is something very basic and true when you eat with others. You share stories, you are more likely to be yourself, and you practice common social things so that you don't look like that weirdo (although all people are weirdos anyways). Anyways, yeah cooking is fun, eating by yourself in your apartment during a cold and rainy winter is not a positive experience.