Filoli

http://www.filoli.org/plan-your-visit/http://www.filoli.org/plan-your-visit/

Filoli is a country house set in 16 acres (6.5 ha; 0.025 sq mi) of formal gardens surrounded by a 654-acre (265 ha; 1.022 sq mi) estate, located in Woodside, California, about 25 miles (40 km) south of San Francisco, at the southern end of Crystal Springs Lake, on the eastern slope of the Santa Cruz Mountains.
In 1917, William Bowers Bourn II and his wife, Agnes, stepped across the threshold of the Georgian manor he had built 30 miles south of San Francisco. Bourn, heir to California’s Empire Mine gold fortune, had sited the estate on 654 acres and surrounded it with 16 acres of formal gardens. He called it Filoli, a name he came up with by combining elements of his life’s credo: 
“Fight for a just cause; 
Love your fellow man; 
Live a good life.”

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Los Angeles places good to go

pina colada drink

remembering the Jamaica vacation :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi%C3%B1a_colada

sightseeing around the San Francisco Bay Area temples with pilgrimages from Burma with two rented tour bus on 6/30/13

1st stop
Palpung Lungtok Choeling
"Pal" means glorious, "Pung" means to gather. For this reason the name Palpung, derived from the combination of the two words has been applied to the institution. Palpung means glorious union of study and practice. (http://www.palpung.org/english/monastery/briefin.asp)
Address: 2175 Santiago Avenue, San Jose, California 95122, USA

2nd stop  
Tu Vien Kim Son Monastery   
Address:  574 Summit road, Watsonville , Ca 95076,USA
3rd stop
Pao-Hua Buddhist Temple, Buddhist Society of America.  vegetarian lunch at this temple
Address: 2946 McKee Road, San Jose, CA 95127, USA

4th stop

Chung Tai Zen Center of Sunnyvale  
Address: 750 E Arques Ave Sunnyvale, CA 94085,USA

A bookmark 十牛图 from Sunnyvale Zen Center
http://ctzen.org/sunnyvale/zhTW/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=250&Itemid=54

新年快乐！ visit Bok Kai Temple

新年快乐！
We visited the Bok Kai Temple in Marysville today.

The temple is used as a place of worship and is preserved as a California Historical Landmark. Bok Kai temple was erected in Marysville in 1854 to serve the first contingent of Chinese arrived in California to work the gold mines during the California Gold Rush.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bok_Kai_Temple

Venice likes in California and China-Suzhou蘇州

home to the Timbisha tribe of Native Americans-Death Valley

The Timbisha ("Red Rock Face Paint") are a Native American tribe federally recognized as the Death Valley Timbisha Shoshone Band of California.

Death Valley is a desert valley located in Eastern California. Situated within the Mojave Desert, it features the lowest, driest, and hottest locations in North America. 

http://snack.to/pzumyj3p

Life in Death Valley- the sliding rocks of the Racetrack Playa

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/deathvalley/rocks.html

Shwe Man Thu store

The great Burmese store in the Southern California.  Burmese food, Burmese music tapes,...etc you name it they carry it.

Jasmine Market (Indian & Burmese Food)

If you visit southern California, check out delicious food at Jasmine Market (Indian & Burmese Food).

musicians at Ensenada Mexico La Bufadora (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Bufadora)

Ensenada Mexico La Bufadora (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Bufadora)

Free WiFi provided at the tea shop in Mandalay

မႏၲေလးၿမိဳ႕ရွိ အင္တာနက္ ဝုိင္ဖိုင္ အခမဲ့သံုးခြင့္ေပးေသာ လက္ဖက္ရည္ဆိုင္မ်ား
ယူနီစန္ လက္ဖက္ရည္ဆုိင္ (၈၄ လမ္း၊ ၂၉x၃၀ ၾကား)
စိန္၀င္း၀င္း လက္ဖက္ရည္ဆုိင္ (၃၄ လမ္း၊ ၈၄x၈၅ ၾကား)
မင္းသီဟ လက္ဖက္ရည္ဆိုင္ (၁၉ လမ္းx၈၂ လမ္းေထာင့္)
မင္းသီဟ လက္ဖက္ရည္ဆုိင္ (၇၈ လမ္း၊ ၃၁x၃၂ ၾကား ဘူတာႀကီးေတာင္ဘက္)
မင္းသီဟ လက္ဖက္ရည္ဆုိင္ (၂၈ လမ္း၊ ၇၂ ေထာင့္)
မင္းသီဟ လက္ဖက္ရည္ဆုိင္ (၃၂ လမ္း၊ ၇၇x၇၈ ၾကား)
မန္းၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ လက္ဖက္ရည္ဆုိင္ (၈၄ လမ္း၊၃၂x၃၃ ၾကား)
မင္းမင္းေက်ာ္ လက္ဖက္ရည္ဆုိင္ (၈၃ လမ္း၊ ၃၃x၃၄ ၾကား)
အာကာမင္း လက္ဖက္ရည္ဆုိင္ (၃၂ လမ္းx၆၈ လမ္းေထာင့္)
ေကာင္းဟိန္း လက္ဖက္ရည္ဆုိင္ (၄၁ လမ္း၊ ၈၀x၈၁ ၾကား)
ေထာေထာ လက္ဖက္ရည္ ဆုိင္ (လမ္း ၈၀၊ အမွတ္ ၂ ရဲစခန္း ေျမာက္ဘက္)
Top Choice လက္ဖက္ရည္ဆုိင္ (လမ္း၈၀၊ ၃၁x ၃၂ လမ္းၾကား)
တင္ေစာ လက္ဖက္ရည္ဆုိင္ (လမ္း ၈၀x၄၁ လမ္းေထာင့္)
ၾကယ္တာရာ လက္ဖက္ရည္ဆုိင္ (လမ္း ၈၀x၄၁ လမ္းေထာင့္)
ကရဝိတ္ လက္ဖက္ရည္ဆုိင္ (၂၂လမ္း၊ ၈၃x၈၆ လမ္းၾကား)
ခ်စ္ညီေလး လက္ဖက္ရည္ဆုိင္ (၃၂လမ္း၊ ၇၆x၇၇ လမ္းၾကား)
စိန္ဝင္းဝင္း (၂) လက္ဖက္ရည္ဆုိင္ (၃၄လမ္း၊ ၈၃x၈၄ ၾကား)

A moving natural camouflage plant at the Shell Beach bed

The video shows a moving plant at the Shell Beach bed.  When you gently put your finger in the plant, it will suck your hand to protect itself, then row to a ball shape likes rock- a natural camouflage.  It is so great to see an unusual plant's ability to hide itself from predator and prey.

Hakka cuisine From Wikipedia

Read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakka_cuisine

I'm sure seeing the dishes make you feel hungry :)

Labor Day Holiday - Picnic at Plaza Park, visit Bok Kai Temple, Marysville, shopped at Vacaville Premium Outlets

Hope all had a great Labor Day Holiday!
The temple is at the Plaza Park. On the way back was shopping :)

Chiangmai - ( a city located at northern Thailand, bordering Burma on the north and Laos on the east )

Rai Mae Fah Luang or the Mae Fah Luang Art and Cultural Park
in Chiangmai (a city located at northern Thailand, bordering Myanmar (Burma) on the north and Laos on the east) photos courtesy of eddy, collaged by thawdar.

A few minutes world tour

Receive an interesting slide show from a friend today a few minutes tour slide will take you around the world. The last slide can stun you.