The Poetry of Derek Walcott

Barquentine  Anchored in glass and parroquet - parrot
A training ship like bus drivers in training.

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Learning Web App development by Semmy Purewal
The tree diagrams are very helpful in visualising all the elements of a web page. In the process of building the example 'Amazerrific', you fist see the goal page and then break it up into elements on paper and then build them back up on the computer with code. This will build up the confidence of a newbie web developer. Once you get this part, you can build up and delve into more complex stuff like interactive and responsive design, working with java script, what cloud can do for you.

On the walk

a dead bird from yesterday
a bud light on the ground
a long cardboard tube
used for shipping or tube men
and a white plastic cloth hanger

PS: d I found a brilliant way of walking with the family. To keep pace with the baby, we take turns in brisk walking and walking towards the slow party after walking ahead to a landmark in the view, thus making atleast 1 and 1/2 distance.


 

Radiation Biology and Medical Imaging

In 'Radiation Biology of Medical imaging', author Charles A Kelsey, slowly builds up the readers awareness with the field of radiation for medical purposes, by explaining the effects of radiation on cells and the various models used to measure that.
After reading the book, a reader will clearly know how a cancer cell is different from a normal cell. The subheadings under 'The Characteristics of Cancer cells' provide the reader with a very good understanding of that difference. The book has a clear approach to increasing the reader's body of understanding on how radiation has different effects on different parts of the body.
Tables, graphs and pictures enhance the learning process and the technical aspects of the science and experiments of radiation exposure.

Play Doh Sweet Shoppe Mountain Playset

Have you played the online game where on an assembly you can choose all things that go on to make your cake. This is a good way to get hands on with all your design ideas for wonderful cakes.
My toddler and her friend had fun playing with this cake set. The cake pop press works very well. the same cannot be said of the main layer cake molds by pressing on the top. But if you use the mold independently to make the cake, you can get the cake to release decently. The molds on the sides of the cake yield very cute, tiny croissants, bows, shells. I had fun too making the perfect shaped things. The trick is knowing the exact amount of play dough to put in to the press, so it releases without any overhang. For toddlers, the frosting squeezer is a good way to exercise their motor skills. The softer play doh is really that.

Lets Build

The book is about forging good memories in a parent-child relationship by making something together. The child learns about the planning that goes into making something concrete and the joy of accomplishment of something useful. A beginning page in the book has a tape. At the time I got this book, we had a tape on the counter for making a vegetable garden. Father and daughter worked in the garden for hours together and reminded me of fort building characters of the book. Sharing activities with your child is fun and if it comes with rhyme, even more.
The illustrations are simple and keep the focus on the building in progress.

Enroute Santa Fe

we kept driving towards Holbrook, we saw a train on the side. Having seen Giant Logs, going towards painted desert, we saw the rail road underneath, Santa Fe Railroad. As we drove into New Mexico, the train with four yellow engines and may be more than fifty freight cars connected to it. All UPS and Fedex in one place. This train followed us alongside for a long time and then it was Rio Grande's turn.
We took the Sandia Peak Tramway which also welcomed us into the Cibola National Forest.  We stayed at Rio Rancho. everywhere there's an Intel, they seem to have an Intel Drive road. I would have moved to NM if not for the ever present traffic cops.
I-528 has an easy connection to I-25. Our plan was to stay in Corrales and get a pastoral sense but the drive into New Mexico filled us heartily with sights of a horse on the plains like mile post. Man proposes Hotwire Disposes.
The next morning on our way to Tent Rocks National Monument, just 4 miles short of it, we reached a  road block sign. Onto the left was a collection of offices but nobody, it being a sunday. We were going to be content with th huge black wall, a bank of a raised railroad? and the Rio Grande, and then I found the sign we missed to the Tent Rocks. The slow entry also had a 'pay it forward' with park fee paid ahead. Even with acres and acres of land, the parking wasnt enough. I didnt pay attention to the trails map. duaghter and father team were tackling tantrums while the sisters forged ahead. There was a trail which would led us back with no effort but no experience of the tent rocks too. As we hiked, there were places here we thought of 127 Hours and Jemez Mountains which caused the layers with its volcanic ash. Fellow hikers thought that when the path got too constricted and required us to step high, the rocks on either side were just arms away. Felt semi claustrophobi in a place or two. Before starting the hike, we had seen some people on the ridge and wondered how some got there. On the way we asked a party, if they were going up, if they knew the way to that. another party said that the trail we were on would not go to the top and cut across back. They were under a misunderstanding. They were referring to the window shopping trail. At some point we turned back when we realised the return was a known path and forward was steep. NM-22 got us there from I-25 and NM-16 would take us back to I-25 without repeating the route. From here on you are transported into the world of Coronado.
Ecco Gelato  serves Avocado and Watermelong flavor gelatos and uses local coffee.
Santa Fe was alet down with the curator at Georgia O Keeffe Museum was a let down with the curator asking back for a sketch book given as a disocvery packet back from a toddler. Hello.
We didnt expect Rio Rancho to have an Indian restaurant. The ladies at Namaste were very cordial and managed the restaurant very well each following the others steps like the same person, filling the water jugs on a side table when the jugs cleared. We had Matar Paneer, Samosa, Malai Kofta.

Perfect still Life

When I opened the restroom door
Under the counter lay few blue berries
with a bunched brown paper
which had been holding the berries
There was a smear of the juice too
on the floor

Coronado

Coronado encountered tent rock monument
The Journey of Coronado
Texas in the Spanish era  

Sound of the Ax

So a sentence wont drain away, you put a stop at the end of it
I never saw a cloud I didnt like 

Smoothies

At Costco, I had a smoothie. It had spinach, pineapple and orange juice as a Vitamix sample. I just had spinach. Wow.
Right before reading '365 skinny smoothies', I came across 'Ultimate Juices and smoothies Encyclopaedia' which I like better for the combinations. 365 Skinny smoothies calls for ingredients which I dont have in my pantry - hemp milk, coconut water. A substitution can solve that but the smoothies that would make me get up and go fix one in a blender are far and few.

World's Smartest Traveler

Ask Elliott

The paragraph long Q&A are very interesting.
I have one story to share. Our family was set on a trip to India. As is wont to happen with people living on work visas, we were in a waiting game wrt papers from USCIS. We had to postpone the tickets. The airlines wouldnt refund for the domestic part of it. Enraged, my husband's friend wanted to give it a shot. He found out that the flight we were supposed to be on went full. A phone call and email later, we had refund. This book can be that friend or help you like that friend to redress your grievances related to travel.

Letters of Note

Lettersofnote
lies among his gallstones
Why explore space
Sole survivor policy
No words men write can stop the war
for sake of humanity  

Pictures that will inspire you to paint

Elkfest

When a plate breaks

It does you a favour
you can now
paint on to it
break it more
and glue into
forms in your head