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hong kong memory week photo #4

the best memory that comes with the smell of rice cooking in the kitchen, food cooking on the streets, the noise of 4:00 pm echoing up and through the open window...
my afternoon naps.

hong kong memory week photo #3
(i missed a few days due to a last minute escape to the woods)

this is the entrance to the church where timmy & ann got married. just outside hong kong, on top of a mountain. it was easier to breathe up there, and it had a great view of the city.

hong kong memory week photo #2
handmade broomsticks

i took this photo in one of the calmest places i could find in hong kong. it was a tiny parkette next to a small schoolfield, with a wooden bench where you could sit and look down over the road that passed underneath. we found this place early one morning when it was still relatively quiet in the streets. we ate our breakfast on the bench, or at least tim did... i spent most of the time here taking pictures of the brooms! i loved how each broom was unique, with different coloured string and bristles sticking out every which way.

hong kong memory week photo #1 :
mong kok alley

tim and i often took "secret passageways" to other streets.
they were my favorite part of exploring the city, because you see what everyone is trying to hide, or has left behind. it also allows for an escape from the masses of people, as if you have stepped into another (quieter) city for a minute.
even still, standing in these passages, you can hear the city humming around you.

blanc

i'm shaking in my boots from excitement to help my mom put together the bedrooms at the new cottage/house/cabin. i really can't shut up about it. i found these photographs at desire to inspire. i think my addiction to white rooms with minimal styling reflects a craving i keep having for more simplicity in my life. people keep telling me that i live in a dream world, and that i'm too much of an escapist, but i like it that way. i figure it's better to have hopes for something more, than to settle for what is.
hope you're having a good sunday.

yaaaay for the three potato four blog!

it's just so great.

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