JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

As our experiment this year, we are trying to grow corn. This week I spied our first ear when I saw the silk. It surprised – and educated – me. Somehow I thought that ears of corn grew from the top of the stalk, not from the sides. Country bumpkin is a derogatory term, as […]

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No, not really. But if I don’t post here for a little while, don’t be surprised….:-)

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I saw this sunflower growing in the garden at the school across the street and snapped its picture. Looking at the image at home, I was amazed by the brightness of the hues…no Photoshop needed….

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Oh, I mistyped that. How about a large glass beer and fries? Last week the girls and I saw artist John Miller fashioning a french fry at the the Museum of Glass in Tacoma … He has also made enormous beer glasses, as shown in the screen above, and other oversized items from a diner. […]

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Thanks to Anita Rowland’s suggestion in a comment on a previous post I wrote, the girls and I visited the Museum of Glass in Tacoma last week. While there I also thought of Lenn Pryor and my brother, glass-blowers I know, wondering what their opinion would be of the place. The best pieces – in […]

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