Harbour Festival, morning walks and cooking class

This morning was quite misty, and the walk to school took me past a place where quite a few buildings have been demolished and/or altered, and amid the pile of rubble I spotted this delicate pink flower. Unconcerned with where it is, it blooms there, creating beauty for me, the passer-by.

And then, of course, I just had to take this shot of the sun rising through the mist, catching the bare branches of the last trees still not decked out in new leaves.

Yesterday afternoon, the whole school went to the Korean Boat festival at Jeong Gok Harbour. And there I spotted this very earnest oarsman, really putting his back into making his paddle boat race around the man-made pond!

A view of the harbour with two tall ships in background.

And finally, the results of the cooking class we had yesterday morning. We made Mexican Chicken Nachos. This was what it should have looked like, instead we had some really disgusting messes and some fairly presentable but still not quite there attempts.

One funny thing though, even though they used Korean chilies and Korean hot sauce, the food was 'too spicy' for them!

Korean wildflowers

With Spring now in full bloom, the morning walk shows me a lot of flowers. Here, the pear orchard just outside the school. BTW, if you are lucky enough to be able to get some Korean pears, enjoy. I'm really looking forward to the season, as these pears are similar to apples in shape and texture, but with that lovely pear flavour.

This tiny little purple flower is bedded in the middle of dead leaves, other weeds and is so delicate that I just had to snap it.

Pushing up in the middle of a tangle of rusting machinery and broken parts, this ivory and blue flower has the sweetest scent.

This bank of bluebells form the backdrop for a shady part of the morning walk - this will be a welcome place to stop in the summer heat.

A close up of the blue bells shown above.