I recently visited the Bubba Gump Restaurant in Long Beach, CA. Here’s a brief bio from Wikipedia: “The Bubba Gump Shrimp Company Restaurant and Market is an American seafood restaurant chain inspired by the 1994 film Forrest Gump. The Bubba Gump restaurant is named after the film’s characters Benjamin Buford “Bubba” Blue and Forrest Gump. In […]
WW: Sandy
Jumping in to the weekly photo challenge at the DailyPost today! The prompt: TEXTURES This post is also linked at: Image-In-Ing, bethere2day, ohmyheartsiegirl, and clairejustine.
Just Beachy
Summer is in full swing, here in Southern California. You’ll find most of us down by the beach side when we’re not at work. The beach is always at least 20 degrees cooler than everywhere else. For me, that means a beautiful 80 degrees (F) instead of a sweltering 100+ degrees! Believe it or not, […]
Unregrettably Good
It’s been so long since I’ve typed out this mommy life. Writing here almost seems foreign and new again. Who will read this? I don’t know. But I’m itching to write. Life happened, but my memory has never been good. I need to write before I forget the good parts. Like the time I took […]
When It Rains, It Pours
Today, it was a warm and sunny day in Southern California. You wouldn’t guess at all that just last week, it was raining cats and dogs around here. So much so, that there were flooded streets everywhere. My favorite was when the street that my children’s school was on, looked like a river! Check it […]
Lunar New Year / Tet Festival
This Saturday is the Lunar New Year. For Vietnamese people, like my husband, it is the start of the Tet Festival. According to VietnamOnline.com: “Tet Nguyen Dan, or Tet for short, is considered the biggest and most popular festival of the year in Vietnam. Celebrated on the first day of the first month in Lunar […]
Graceful, Little Spider
I almost didn’t notice him hanging there, under the playstructure arch. He was so tiny and almost transparent, that aside from his web which gave him away, he was almost invisible. As I zoomed in as much as I could, for he was ever so tiny, I could tell, he was delicate and, as most […]
Bokeh For Ambience
Sometime around last Christmas, I was playing around with my DSLR camera. I was changing different settings to see what they did to the resulting shots. Quite by accident, I discovered how to change the camera’s focus from the center to the side! This was the secret I’ve been looking for because it created a […]