Dreaming of the Southern Shore
By Bai Juyi
Translated by Li Ping
Fair Southern shore,
With scenes I adore.
At sunrise riverside flowers redder than fire,
In spring green waves grow as blue as sapphire,
Which I can't but admire.
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My morning started with a juvenile eagle sitting in the tree right outside my window, and we have pictures on our walls! Not all the pictures on all the walls, since we have to make a bunch of decisions because we packed too many -- everything hanging over our staircases, for instance, and the large Paris painting we got as a wedding present and have had over the television for the past 30 years. But the bedroom looks pretty well settled even with the portable air conditioner taking up valuable real estate.
We took a walk to Idylwood Park in the afternoon to enjoy the beach, then came back and I watched Voyager's "Relativity" with my Tuesday evening regulars. Then we had dinner, enjoyed a beautiful cool evening with visiting geese outside the porch, and watched some more of The Diplomat, which I am enjoying immensely though if I think about it for five seconds it's absolutely ridiculous! From the Bellevue Botanical Garden, the Hua Yuan School annual Chinese flower arrangement exhibition:
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