Peony Mirro

SAPPORO Snow Festival

2007-02-08T00:01:00.000+09:00

Every winter, about two million people come to Sapporo to see the hundreds of beautiful snow statues and ice sculptures. snowfes.com The weather are too warm this year!

Celebrate New Year photos

2007-01-01T23:12:00.000+09:00

First fireworks over Sydney Harbour in Australia!

Fireworks over the Parthenon in Greece.

100 diamonds cake

2006-12-18T00:19:00.000+09:00

Christmas cake priced at 100 million yen at Takashimaya store in Osaka.

Good backgrounds

2006-12-06T23:49:00.000+09:00

Pixiegirl's site has extreme wallpapers. Go see!
~from Sereena

Customise kaleidoscope

2006-11-20T22:08:00.000+09:00

You only have to enter the URL of a site and see the JPG pictures turn in a kaleidoscope. Very cool.

2006-11-15T23:43:00.000+09:00

A sculpture by Igor Mitoraj from Poland. With a small child is peeking out from one eye!

Not a bacteria and not an insect

2006-11-15T23:40:00.000+09:00

This is hearing impaired dancers performing 'Mother Buddha' at the Xinjiang People's Hall in Urumqi, China.

Latte art

2006-11-05T11:33:00.000+09:00

These are whimsical and cute. Follow the links on the page to see more of this art.

Metal acrobatics

2006-11-01T22:57:00.000+09:00

The 7th International Acrobatics Festival in Wuhan, the capital of
Hubei province in China. They resemble balloon art, at least to me.

Flowers or cakes?

2006-10-25T22:39:00.000+09:00

Look like flowers

2006-10-16T00:12:00.000+09:00

An art installation made up of weathercocks in Korea.

Worker arranges earthen lamps in Calcutta, India. People buy these earthen lamps in large numbers to decorate their homes for Diwali, annual Hindu festival of lights happens on Oct. 21.

Tomato bath!

2006-10-16T00:09:00.000+09:00

Israeli girl floats in a pool of tomatoes at tomato festival in the village of Yevul southern Israel.

Bra made of gold

2006-09-26T00:20:00.000+09:00

The dragon wings look to need cushion tips. LINK

Yummy toxic lipstick

2006-08-21T09:39:00.000+09:00

The picture is just cool.

Trouble at parade

2006-08-09T23:14:00.000+09:00

Cow sculpture parade in Budapest, the story is from Sereena X.

"Expressions"

2006-07-18T22:31:00.000+09:00

This is a hanging installation named "Expressions." It is from artist Sophie Caves and showing at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, Scotland. Funny!

Fruit sculptures

2006-05-30T23:57:00.000+09:00

Little performers stand with fruit sculpture at this opening ceremony of the exhibition by Italian fruit carving artist Paolo Pachetti in Hong Kong China.

How to make sculpture fruit. ~~ Well okay, but why to make sculpture fruit?

Please touch the screen!

2006-05-04T23:04:00.000+09:00

This is taking place at the International Conference on Virtual Reality in Laval, France. You are able to stir virtual water in a reality bowl. This is called Device Art.I would like to travel to this and see the tea-box imps too. link

Time to meet Genibo

2006-05-01T21:57:00.000+09:00

The new Robot Dogs made by South Korea.

Katakuri

2006-04-22T00:01:00.000+09:00

(Dog's-tooth violet)

Arita-yaki vases

2006-04-04T23:50:00.000+09:00

Toilet paper-shaped vases are displayed at an exhibit
at Kyushu University User Science Institute.

Fuchsia blooms

2006-03-31T23:37:00.000+09:00

This is a picture I found when I look for photograph of fuchsia plants. They appear like dancing fairies.

Cherry Blossoms

2006-03-26T23:19:00.000+09:00

These are cherry blossoms at central Tokyo's Ueno Park at the pond. I went to look at the cherry blossoms again but I didn't bring my usual camera. My phone camera stopped taking photos.

This link is about cherry blossom forecasters in Tokyo.

St. Patrick's Day dogs

2006-03-22T07:08:00.000+09:00

Pretty in green

Offering for nice weather

2006-03-16T23:23:00.000+09:00

Spring is here. I hope the rain will stop in the morning tomorrow.

Big new fun for Chinese young people

2006-03-16T23:06:00.000+09:00

"A new online game commissioned by the Chinese government gives people the opportunity to see Chairman Mao on Tiananmen Square if they help old people across the street or gently ask strangers to stop swearing and spitting."

^%*&^%$# !!!!!!!!!

2006-03-15T00:15:00.000+09:00

Two pictures I am ready to use here. Blogger does not work here today. No uploads and only words.

Practice in the English language

2006-03-13T21:19:00.000+09:00

Tagged by Sereena.

Which accent is music to your ears?
All accents sound nice to me.

Favorite noir book or movie:
I found the meaning of noir but I don't have these books or movies. I might not understand exactly the question. Shaft or Foxy Brown, really I don't know. Go away now.

An argument you refuse to get involved in:
Where we should go eat lunch. It can make many enemies to have this argument.

Three fruits you like:
persimmon, pear, berries

Your favorite ambient setting:
Nice weather, nice garden, happy families, shopping, clubs

Your motto:

The perfect song:
American punk music and British pop

Neuschwanstein Castle

2006-03-07T07:19:00.000+09:00

Castle in Bavaria surround by snow

Cherry Blossoms poster

2006-02-25T11:49:00.000+09:00

Best buddies

2006-02-25T11:41:00.000+09:00

This photo released by the Los Angeles Zoo shows Willy, a 10-year-old, 187-pound Red River porcine, right, nuzzling his new companion Nicole, a 16-year-old bongo antelope, in their exhibit at the zoo Feb. 13, 2006, in Los Angeles.

Okay well I like my cellphone

2006-02-13T23:22:00.000+09:00

~~~ but not this much!

Well okay if you insist

2006-02-13T23:14:00.000+09:00

Too busy

2006-02-02T10:16:00.000+09:00

I have too much work now! That makes me have to choice between reading news and blogs and books and videogames or looking for such things to put on my blog. It's funny to have workwork, like schoolwork to take home. Managers remind us this will not stay too long, probably so we don't complain.

Evening mood

2006-02-02T10:00:00.000+09:00

Royal Palace Gardens Tokyo

2006-01-26T15:21:00.000+09:00

Love it. A rug of flowers and soft greens. Spring will come soon ~~~maybe soon~~~ and it will be time to enjoy the beautiful sights and fragrance of flowers. But now I might go shopping and find some colorful new gloves to brighten the weather for now.

Lily of the Nile

2006-01-26T11:43:00.000+09:00

Snake and hamster

2006-01-22T21:43:00.000+09:00

I think I would like to see a lapse time picture of the two friends. Did the snake eat the hamster or are they still friends?

Hamster was supposed to be dinner

2006-01-19T07:03:00.000+09:00

Click here to read about new best friends.

2006-01-13T23:03:00.000+09:00

Dog fashion show in Tokyo.
A Shih-tzu in a kimono and I think the other is a dachshund in grasshopper dress.

This is today's mood

2006-01-12T00:28:00.000+09:00

...a bouquet of dahlias. If you please ignore the copyright on the photo; this is the most colorful one I found.

Snow makes bad problems here

2006-01-07T11:45:00.000+09:00

Commuting is a big mess and we are having people getting killed because of heavy snow. The news calls it inclement weather. I looked for inclement in dictionary and it said lacking mildness. This should be exaggerated more. It's serious problem.

Yomiuri Shimbun

Snow makes boy too tired to bring mail- MAINICHI NEWS

ascii chewy

2006-01-04T23:20:00.000+09:00

http://www.smileproject.com/chewy/

Is this time for cherry blossoms?

2006-01-04T23:03:00.000+09:00

It's 5 degrees in Tokyo! OK so 40 Fahrenheit..

More snow, more ice in China

2006-01-02T07:02:00.000+09:00

Ice restaurant, pretty but crazy

2005-12-30T11:28:00.000+09:00

CHINA ICE RESTAURANT

Chicory -- a wildflower

2005-12-30T11:09:00.000+09:00

Green Santa, yes!

2005-12-25T19:17:00.000+09:00

Green Santa presents Aichi Expo Office administration chief Toshio Nakamura with an award in Nagoya on Friday as expo mascots Morizo and Kikkoro watch.

Corsag

2005-12-22T22:16:00.000+09:00

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Ooh, look at this Christmas card

2005-12-22T21:53:00.000+09:00

http://www.syfc.org.sg/christmas05/hokkien.htm

This is very funny stuff

2005-12-21T23:12:00.000+09:00

Menu item translations and some of it is only disgusting!

Shop like crazy! You'll love it.

2005-12-20T11:13:00.000+09:00

Something for everyone, http://www.rakuten.co.jp/

Chrysanthemum

2005-12-17T08:23:00.000+09:00

See, how it has a similar look to peonies.

Barbie wear for real girls

2005-12-17T08:15:00.000+09:00

I would like to wear this to a special party. Too cute!

Hat With Little Flower Yarn

2005-12-15T23:06:00.000+09:00

I made one of these. pink and green and blue.
The yarn is like this- Little Flowers

A Flame Peony

2005-12-15T00:11:00.000+09:00

Red Charm Peony

2005-12-14T00:43:00.000+09:00

Pretty!