Standing Into Danger: Cambodia

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Friday, April 19, 2024

Pushing my Limits!

The operation on my eyes is behind me. It went very well!

I won't know for a bit if I'm one and done, or if I'll need a second operation.

Meanwhile I look pretty scary ~ lol!

I wish I had looked like this when I performed in "Thriller,"

on the Ovation of the Seas on Halloween. I make a perfect zombie!

Whatever happens with my eyes, I will continue to push my limits

and experience as much as I can in this incredible gift of life!

Me (Louise) During Our "Thriller" Rehearsal

270º East ~ Ovation of the Seas

South Pacific Near New Zealand October 28, 2023

Me (Louise) During Our "Thriller" Performance

270º East ~ Ovation of the Seas

South Pacific Near New Zealand October 28, 2023

I said that I would share the video I shot flying down Fremont Street on SlotZilla,

if I figured out how to download it and post it. And I did!

The video is no work of art.

I had no clue what I was doing with the handheld GoPro.

All I could think of before I flew was,

Oh my God! Oh my God! Am I really doing this?

I was really scared, and there was no backing out once I was strapped in.

Then, as I began flying, I started laughing because it was so much fun.

There's are a lot of extraneous seconds of nothing at the end,

because I didn't realize the camera was still filming.

My friend Janeth is to my left and flying ahead of me.

See Me Fly!

I'm linking to Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date, Nicole's Friday Face Off,

and Tom's Aloha Friday.

For Rain and Nicole: Spoons and Faces in a Cambodian Market.

We traveled to Cambodia in December 2008.

During our visit we had a wonderful guide, Soluy Loeurt.

She took us to a local country market and introduced us to a popular Cambodian dish:

a duck egg embryo, 18 to 20 weeks old,

boiled alive and eaten from the shell, tender bones and all.

She sprinkled the embryo with herbs and showed us how to eat it.

Which we did. When in Cambodia, do as the Cambodians do!

Soluy Louert Enjoys the Duck Embryo Dish

Outside Siem Reap, Kingdom of Cambodia

December 20, 2008

Boiling Duck Embryos

Outside Siem Reap, Kingdom of Cambodia

December 20, 2008

A Duck Embryo Served Up

Outside Siem Reap, Kingdom of Cambodia

December 20, 2008

Terry Goes for it!

And so do I!

Lunch Break at the Market

The Sweetest Face

Terry and I at the Market

For Tom: Aloha: Fledgling Surfers.

A group of people head out for a surfing lesson.

Paddling Out to the Breaking Surf

Kapiolani Beach Park, O'ahu, Hawai'i, USA

January 25, 2024

Have a great weekend!

Till next time ~
Fundy Blue

My next post will be

Friday, April 26th 🤞

On the Bay of Fundy
© M. Louise (MacBeath) Barbour/Fundy Blue

Friday, August 26, 2022

City of Roses

Yesterday, I was looking at my photos of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada,

which I think is one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

Terry and I haven't been there in a few years, and I miss this gorgeous place.

Victoria is known for many cultural and historical things,

but I think of it at the City of Roses.

I've spent hours and hours in its lovely rose gardens,

and I return to these gardens each time I visit Victoria.

City of Roses

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

September 12, 2017

Pope John Paul II Hybrid Tea

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

September 12, 2017

Yesterday, I was supposed to be eliminating photos

that were too similar, poor shots, or blah,

but I find it difficult to trash a photo of a rose.

I'm embarrassed to think of how many rose photos I have in my collection.

One of my favorite rose gardens, the Premier's Rose Garden,

is hidden behind the British Columbia Parliament Buildings

which are home to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.

Often I wander alone among the rose beds

enjoying the roses from baby buds to lush blowsy blooms.

Buxom Beauty Pink Hybrid Tea

Behind the Parliament Buildings

September 10, 2017

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Apricot Pink Grandiflora

Baby Buds to Blowsy Bloom

September 10, 2017

I love and appreciate it when flowers are labeled in gardens.

I always want to know their names.

Fortunately the roses in Victoria's gardens are named.

Rose Beds Behind the Parliament Buildings

September 10, 2017

Easy Going Yellow Floribunda

September 10, 2017

Rose Beds Behind the Parliament Buildings

Easy Going Yellow Floribunda

September 10, 2017

Souvenir de Baden Baden, Pink/White Hybrid Tea

September 10, 2017

Buxom Beauty Pink Hybrid Tea

September 10, 2017

Kosmos Fairy Tale White Floribunda

September 10, 2017

One of my favorite memories of Victoria was an unexpected random act of kindness.

I was walking down a street near Beacon Hill Park

and a woman cutting roses in her garden saw me passing her yard.

She snipped a brilliant red rose and gave it to me saying,

"Have a wonderful day!"

Not the Rose, but a Lovely Red One Nonetheless

Amour, Grand Red Hybrid

In a Rose Garden Somewhere in Victoria

The theme for my friend Rain's Thursday Art Date this week is Gestures and Movement.

I'm sharing a photo for each. There was no time for me to create art this week!

A welcoming gesture from a friendly greeter for visitors near the Ogden Point Breakwater.

Along the Waterfront

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

September 11, 2017

I captured this movement photo with the zoom on my point-and-shoot camera,

braced inside a zodiac raft bouncing on waves.

It may not be my sharpest photo, but certainly it's one of my most dramatic shots.

An Orca Strikes

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

September 15, 2017

A talented artist, Nicole, who regularly participates in Rain's TAD,

posts Friday Face Off every week.

I thought I'd join in this week and share one of the sweetest faces I've ever photographed,

a darling Cambodian boy in a local market outside Siem Reap.

A Beautiful Cambodian Boy

A Local Market Outside Siem Reap, Cambodia

November 10, 2008

Have a great weekend!

Till next time ~
Fundy Blue

My next post will be on

Wednesday, September 7, 2022.

Books Read in 2026

"18 Days in Heaven" by Gale Poirot
"A Serial Killer's Daughter: My Story of Hope, Love, and Overcoming" by Kerrie Rawson
"Eat Your Ice Cream: Six Simple Rules for a Long and Healthy Life" by Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD.
"Is Math Real? How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics Deepest Truths" by Eugenia Cheng
"Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir
"Tell Me Everything" by Elizabeth Strout
"The Covenant of Water" by Abraham Verghese
"The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity" by David Graeber and David Wengrow
"The Life Impossible" by Matthew Haig
"The Lord go the Rings" by JRR Tolkien
"The Match" by Harlan Corben
"The Night the Path Disappeared" by Terri Bergen
"The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper" by Roland Allen
"Theo of Golden" by Allen Levi
"Think Twice" by Harlan Corben
"Why Christianity Must Change Or Die" by John Shelby Spong

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Pushing my Limits!

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City of Roses

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