Pictures Speak for Themselves!

....mostly about what they captured!

..an unmistakably impeccable and quintessential autumn atmosphere....worth-capturing through my camera lenses.

Pasar Loak di Dongmyo

Masih ada waktu 30 menit sblm jemput Eyra. Hari sdh mulai gelap karena mendung dan memang sebentar lagi jam 5 sore. Namun, itu tak membendung keisenganku untuk mengintip pasar loak yang ternyata cantik juga pas musim gugur.

Hmm...whatba lovely afternoon walk I had. Though I spent like 15 minutes in the market, I could savor the delights of autumn near the flee market and around Dongmyo shrine. Gosh...autumn leaves....even when they're just lying on the fence...always captured my warmth I felt inside...

...now....see the real stuffs. Yup...banyak yg bs kita dapatkan di sini. So muchn"treasures" here with reasonably cheap prices.....if you're good at bargaining...to begin with.

The gloomy-looking afternoon skies in the early winter...never damped their spirit to do business as usual...(just look at them)....and that's great. 

Oh...it's 16.40...I got to catch the bus....otherwise I'd be late....to Eyra's school.

A Line Up of Street Trees Near Our Home & Backyard (Before They Change Colors!)

It's a three-section street just near our home. We live right inside that bushes:) Yes, the line up of trees far right are located just at the backyard of our apartment. They began to change their colors. So, since they are just beginning to change color, we might as well take the pictures so as to compare them with the would-be-later-on final version of the fully-changed autumn leaves. 

Got to be patient. 

As for the trees right at the backyard of our 3-story apartment, there are yet any significant changes. They're relatively still green. 

But..it'll be interesting to see the falling leaves, trampled leaves, fallen leaves...in this autumn. 

Going Back from School.....

and did not go straight home since the weather and the autumn foliage were too beautiful to miss. That's what she said and likewise...she was going around the neighborhood exploring what we could see.

The unused railway is right at the back of our apartment. 

And it's pretty safe to say ..I mean I say it's safe to play around there...

since there's no way that any train would come ..

*Eyra, are you jumping?* 

Then, off she went to the nearby park where fallen leaves were just left untouched--until some cleaning service did just that. *sigh*

I mean...it would've been just coll had they not cleaned them up, right?

oh, well....

Autumn 2012: Autumn Leaves, Lantern Festival Festival, Pepero Day

I am writing this entry in the midst of the freezing Winter. I guess it was minus 3 degrees or so. The other day it was minus 13!!!!. Well, still it was still so cold that I could not write a thing unless I wrapped myself with blanket to warm the whole body.

Now, let me jot it down this way. To start with, I will just upload lots of pictures we took during last Autumn. First, Freya and her Mom were walking back home after their daily-activity at Modu Public Library. The reason as to why they took this picture was no other than ....seizing the moment of being in front of that tree over there.See that? My wife told me that she liked it...

Even, they collected some leaves to keep. First...two leaves..

Then...other ones...with different textures... 

Then...as days went by...more and more autumn leaves indeed captured their craze... 

They were so excited of having the leaves that most of them were tenderly tugged into a dry sheet of newspaper so as to keep them warm...

A closer look.. 

yellowish, reddish, brown, orange....

colorful... 

even, some dried ones were among the colored autumn mysteries... 

all kinds of shapes and degree of rendering... 

The close-up magnified leaves would be always in the memories of ours. Indeed, it was a great Autumn. 

Another story that I think worth-jotting down here is Eyra's past bed time activity. She made two dolphins of color clays that she began getting interested in. She is pretty good at this, I guess. 

As Freya, she was so proud of herself being able to draw as many stars as she could.  

then, PEpeRo Day came along on November 11, 2012 or should we name it 111112 Day?

One cultural activity that we did ...but ....I was a bit distracted by the school paper that I did not have time to blog was.....our visit to Cheonggyecheon again and again...well, there was this huge anually-held Seoul Lantern Festival.

Not that cold that night compared to Winter:) sure! but still, we warmed ourselves with a bit of more clothing and stuffed ourselves with padded jackets. The lanterns displayed were arranged in more or less 50-meter intervals, so onlookers did not need to squeeze themselves in the crowds just to enjoy what should be enjoyed...^^

What a better way to start the Autumn or early Winter than..going out ..taking a stroll along the beautifully lit Cheonggyecheon with illuminating^^ lanterns that dotted the almost 3-km long stretch...ing stream.

I think I saw these lantern last year!!!! (back in 2011) the first lantern festival I attended. I wonder if those were the ones used last year or ...they were just being similar in theme. Well, I guess...traditional touches were the major themes this year. Not like the one in 2011 when more modern lanterns occupied most displays.

Opps...black out. No...we were under the bridge and I guess the lighting was deliberately made in such a way so as to give a striking contrast to the exhibited lanterns being shown on the walls there.

All's in all...it was a worth-visiting lantern festival.

Back to see it again in 2013? Insyaallah.