Ford blogs: Japanese Tea Garden

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Yesterday we went to the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco and we got tea.. It was Japanese tea, no, Jasmine tea. It tasted kinda good.
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A lady with a pink dress, a kimono, with birds on it, gave it to us.

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Mom look at me. Mom, look.
Mom, look at me!
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…And we had treats: cookies.
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Then we went for a walk where the pond was and we saw some fish. They were koi fish. They were white and orange and big.
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The garden looked like a big giant map thing, like a circle, with bridges that had no rails whatsoever. And stepping stones! That was really fun for me.
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We walked under a big red castle tower thing.
But we got cold.
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And I had to go to the bathroom.
But we went to the gift store. I got a Japanese paintbrush kit.
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I chose that ’cause it’s kinda cool to me. I like Japanese characters and it had those and some pictures on it. Now I want to paint with it. Period.
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30 days in the treehouse, day 1

30 days in the treehouse, day 1, originally uploaded by young@art.

The 30 Day Sit Spot Challenge begins on Friday. Chas and I will be spending our normal quiet time every day out in the treehouse next month. It will be our time to sit quietly and watch spring unfold.

We swept off the brown olive leaves that covered the floor and sat down for peanut butter sandwiches. Within a couple of minutes we were surrounded by a group of chatty titmice and towhees, who dangled from thin, bobbing branches of the acacia tree beside the structure. Not surprisingly, the hummingbirds were fighting somewhere in the orchard, never in one place for very long.