a few water lily's for sale,
and of course lots of orchids,
I am not sure if the people on the stalls here are the growers or whether they buy them in from a farm,
but today there were more than ever in flower,
and lots of different varieties,
all so beautiful,
of course many of these are man made varieties and would not be this colour in the wild,
but nice to look at never the less,
one of the plants sellers kids has had enough for the day!
then Diana came back with a few things,
on the way back to finish our shopping at Friendship I saw this mini bike,
the traffic was as usual backed up along Pattaya Tai as it is most market days,
then on to the railways, a few new trees on the far side of the hill,
and a few more along side the sidings,
Jay and Precil strike the pose,
and Diana,
then back to painting the rocks at the side of the stream, these were the places that Diana could not reach, which was a shame as she made a better job of painting them than me!
well they look a lot better than just being left white,
Diana starting on the batch,
some more of the new trees in place,
the view of the goods yard from the back of the layout,
and from the end,
to the thephrasit market,
we were very early today, lots of trucks still unloading,
second hand shoes down to 80 baht,
another truck unloading, normally we are here at 6.00 but today we arrived about 5.00,
another mobile food stall,
it must be flowering time for orchids,
in Soi Bukaow and here there are so many in flower,
so many varities to chose from,
and so many coulours,
sizes and shapes,
next past the food stalls, squid anyone?
and keep well away from these pans filled with boiling oil,
this is unusual nobody on the beer bar stools,
instead of having a dealers bike show, today oppisite it was a second hand shoe sale,
Diana arrives back with fresh strawberrys,
then off she goes on another shopping foray, just then Gina from the Philippines and Jac from Thailand walked past and stopped to say Hi,
Diana then returned with a couple of yellow hair grips, she then decided dispite my lack of hair that one would look nice on me, no chance!
"Cheers!" from me then off to the soup stall for our evening meal,
but alas the soup stall was not there, so it was back home for a cooked meal,
so it was fish, chips, peas and fried onion rings together with a glass of wine,
then feet up to watch Baraka, a critically acclaimed film, beautifully filmed in 70mm Todd-AO format, an extremely high definition wide-screen film format developed in the mid 1950's, stunning thought provoking images with no dialogue, just a music soundtrack by Michael Sterns, the film takes you from continent to continent in the blink of an eye, with heart soaring and heart wrenching images, as one reviewer said,
'Baraka' is a work of art which rates amongst the greatest achievements in the field,
well it was a bit of a anticlimax to watch Doc Martin and Midsomer Murders after that, I must admit even today as I write this I am still seeing some of the beautiful images from Baraka, the good news is that there are two other similar DVD's that I have, Chronos and Powaqqatsi, I am looking forward to seeing them in the hope that they will be even better than Baraka, then it was time for bed.
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