New Garden City 花園新城, 10/23 - 11/14

Common Mapwing 石牆蝶 Cyrestis thyodamas
sculpture on the way down our stairs
Night Blooming Cereus (Queen of the Night) 曇花 (tan2hua1) 花苞 Epiphyllum oxypetalum (DC.) Haw
web of power
neighbor dogs walking on the forest path
Aralia bipinnata 裡白?木(台灣?木)
Silver grass, Sword grass 五節芒 Miscanthus floridulus (Labill.) Warb. ex S.& L.
台灣黃藤 Calamus formosanus Becc

Municipal elections in Taipei bring out flags

Bushiban Pub

municipal election flags

Formosan blue magpie 台灣藍鵲 Urocissa caerulea

Formosan blue magpie 台灣藍鵲 Urocissa caerulea

Visit to RongZe's plot and apartment in XinXian 信賢

Entering Rong-ze's garden plot




start of an herb patch
path down to the river

place to dip your toes above a cascading waterfall
cascading waterfall upstream
planted lintou
back at the garden plot to collect sweet potato leaves and other vegetables
Zisu, at the end of its season and maybe a bit nutritionally deficient
Rong-ze collecting leafy vegetables for dinner
collecting veggies
seed head of a locally edible grass
Address of Rong-ze's place in Xinxian
We enjoy a nice pot of tea

New Garden City 花園新城, 11/29 - 12/13

bug

treating power insulators
Spoonleaf Kalanchoe 倒吊蓮 Kalanchoe spathulata (Poir.) DC.
Starfruit in Wenzhou neighborhood
cat on the stairs down from the house
Sunset from @Peace Cafe
butterfly
Edible giant, purple-stemmed taro and non-edible elephant's ear, 姑婆芋 Alocasia macrorrhiza

cat
fruit sellers leaving, work on circle building
forest path

a new side path
butterfly
forest farming

Paul's plot in NGC

Paul's plot in NGC
Paul at his plot in NGC

Bunun 布農 Pumpkin grown at the Hanbilou 涵碧樓 permaculture project

Fruit of our labor - Bunun pumpkin - Hanbilou permaculture project

photos from home, 12/18 - 1/2

Baboo in the Girl Scout field

retired NGC water treatment plant
Rd 10 from above
Salad fixins - nasturtium flowers, dandelion, lettuce and parsley
Formosan Whistling-Thrush 台灣紫嘯鶇 Myophonus insularis dressed for cold
second home bean harvest