Foto Friday: back to Nepal 12 September 2008 8:43 am
Posted by Tracy in : breakfast,eggs,nepal,people,pictures,potatoes,restaurants,tea,travel , add a commentI know, you thought I’d forgotten all about the Nepal picture project, and to be honest, for a while there, I thought I’d forgotten all about it, too. But New York’s American Museum of Natural History is food for Tracy nostalgia, and last week Peter and I had a visit from an out-of-town friend who provided me with all the excuse I needed to revisit the dinosaurs of my childhood. Hot diggety have those ever been updated! (Bear with me; I’ll bring this ramble back around to Nepal soon.) Not so very updated but still impressive were all the dioramas, which, as Abi (the aforementioned out-of-town friend) pointed out, are sort of a dying art form but which look very different once you think about all the work someone has to do to create and maintain them. I’d never thought about it that way before, but it made me consider those darkened halls of stuffed and mounted animals in a whole new (if dim) light. The displays of world peoples, however, were still just weird — even weirder now that I’ve seen more of the parts of the world that they purport to represent.
Which brings me to the Hall of Asian Peoples, where I could not find a single reference to Nepal. Lots about India, China, and even Tibet, to the point where I wondered when the displays had been created, and whether Nepal was on some kind of anthropological blacklist then. Next time I go back I’ll try to take notes on the exhibits and try to figure out where they fit on the Tibet vs. China timeline as I know it — they certainly seemed to represent a culture which I’ve learned think of as extremely endangered and better preserved on the Nepali side of the Himalayas. But I digress. The whole “no Nepal in the Hall of Asian Peoples” phenomenon was so weird that it made me want to get back to my long-neglected picture-posting project. So here I go. (more…)
Garden update photos! 6 May 2008 11:09 pm
Posted by Tracy in : garden,pictures,potatoes , add a commentSo last Wednesday I got home from work and was greeted by a happy sight:
Lilacs! Blooming! Maybe spring is finally here! With these hopeful thoughts in mind, my mind naturally turned towards the garden, and (more…)
Photo post: potatoes in progress! 22 April 2008 10:06 am
Posted by Tracy in : garden,pictures,potatoes , 1 comment so farSo a few Monkey Mondays ago, I realized that it was Saint Patrick’s Day during the International Year of the Potato, and set out to celebrate it in my garden (like you do). A quick glance at the information available online about potato cultivation suggested that it’s possible to do so in containers, so I broke out a bucket: (more…)
Another Nepal flashback: October 20 was one delicious day. 20 February 2008 8:28 am
Posted by Tracy in : eating,nepal,pictures,potatoes,travel , add a commentSo yesterday I posted a bunch of Nepal pictures to my Flickr pages, and realized that I am now posting trip pictures more or less exactly four months after they were taken. That revelation, and the fact that a number of yesterday’s posted pictures were of particularly delicious meals, are all the reason I need to write another happy Nepal flashback, this time to October 20, 2007. If you’re feeling too lazy to follow that link, it’s okay — it was sort of a boring automagical post anyway. All I wrote was:
Another trekking day, but depending on whether we took a rest day on the 18th it might be day 5 or 6; I hereby officially quit trying to keep track ahead of time. Any which way, with a name like Bumsing Danda involved, it had better be good!
Little did I know what deliciousness lay in store! (more…)
Monkey Monday: latest ever edition. 24 December 2007 6:15 am
Posted by Tracy in : books,cooking,eating,meta,monkeys,Morning Glory,pictures,potatoes,school,work , 1 comment so farHoly cats, readers. A week ago today at this time I was almost done pulling an all-nighter to get my NYU application submitted at 11:30 that Monday morning. Then I took a nap, and when I woke up I tried to write something monkeyish only to get distracted, a pattern that repeated every day last week. It was almost as if I’d spent a lot of writing energy on some major project and needed to rest that part of my brain, (she wrote, feeling slightly ridiculous for having hedged that statement AT ALL). Anyway. I figure there’s a good chance no one will read this on account of it being Christmas Eve, and now that I’m writing at all again I’m thinking my three-posts-a-week vacation plan is still a pretty good one, and all that adds up to a nice, low-preseasing myself back into the daily blog grind thing, which suits me fine. Read on for a teeny recap of the past week and some guesses about what I’ll be writing about for the next few days. Or don’t, but either way have a fantastic end of the year. (more…)
