Monday, June 13, 2011

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] The Brown Color




Dear MC, BT, Mr. Kiu ,Thuan, Trang, Thuy-Chau, Ai-My,  Belan, Duc, Doug, Triet, TNS, Kct, Tuan, Diep, Hien-Lan, T-Huong,  
Kim-Huong, HyHoa, Caro, Minh-Thuy, all PNEH &  Romantic MC Friends,   
I really love love love & I'm so amazed & enjoying  so much all your  amicable
& witty writings as much as your entries for the past week!   Spectacular spectacular!!!
THuong oi, your paintings are so incredible!!( Giống như BT nói là: Mê tít mà thôi )
BT, MC & Trang oi, your  flower collages creativities  are so vivid & beautiful  & we never could get tired of it
It inspire much beauty & love…
Mr. Kiu oi, your remarks are so thoughtful and considerate, auspiciously needed by each of us…
MC & BT oi, the new theme idea is pretty thoughtful!
The color brown!!!What can I think about the color brown? 
Brown is the color of "earth"! To me, earth is very contemplative, thoughtful, deep…
Earth is strong and solid, for he provides structure… Earth signifies the cycle of life.
He blooms, dies, and is reborn…
Luckily, I had these 2 brown color photos which I like very much because of its fashionable statement
I think that  these images are so eye catching & it's such some cool advertisements
Hope that you like it too!!!
Have a great Monday my dear friends,
Cheers from Liem

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] My entry for this week theme: BROWN




 Chers amies et amis  thi sĩ , họa si'  PNEH  du forum
On dit de Lucky Luke qu'il tire plus vite que son ombre  .... Que dire de vos réactions rapides comme l'éclair , quasi instantanées  ? Aussi tôt le thème lancé ,  photos et aquarelles đua nhau chen vào blog , cùng 1 màu nâu nhưng lộng lẫy và rực sáng  dans différentes facettes , suivant les inspirations et le regard esthétique de l'artiste romantique qui sommeille  en chacun de vous .
Không thể chán được ngắm tranh của Thu Hương  với nét vẽ rồng bay phượng múa  rất thu hút  , các collages flowers  muôn màu sắc , mutiples et variées  rất mê  li et les prises de vue très pro de vos photos .

Un seul dessin pour exprimer ma profonde admiration et merci , merci pour ce ravissement des sens !

KH

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] My entry for this week theme: BROWN



Dear Fellows PNEH, thi si, hoa si, Mr. Kiu, and forum friends,

Following the footsteps of my triplets, Trie^'t and Thu Huong, here are my first entries (ie there will be more to come. I start from inside the house first, will submit more photos of brown things from outside the house :-)).

 I did not realize there are so many brown things in this world, I could not stop taking pictures.
BiTi, Can I have a collage of my own for Brown, just like Trang got one for Portraits? :-)

Have a great week and goodnight
from Be^n Bo*\ So^ng
MC


Brown

Different brown tones for this week
Tuan

Fwd: [MC74 and Friends] Oisillons nes en juin



 
Voici une photo d'oisillons et leur maman perchée à côté du nid caché dans le pin.
C'est drôle, les petits oiseaux ouvrent grand leur bec quand on approche et on n'entend aucun pépiement. Mais la maman n'est pas contente, elle pousse des cris.
tc

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] Theme for the upcoming week




Dear MC,

Before I can start nagging anyone, I have to hold myself up to the mirror, so here forthwith are my submissions for last week's theme of Birds and this week's theme of Brown. I didn't realize accepting the job of Nag #3 requires me to be diligent about my own entries. No longer can I slack off until the last minute...

I couldn't make up my mind about the Brown theme so I decided to submit two entries, a collage of the amazing Gaudi architecture found in Palau Guell in Barcelona (lots of brown!) and pictures of the food I saw in the Mercat de la Boqueria in Barcelona, some kind of brown seafood and brown figs. Hope you don't mind the multiple entries.

Trang

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] My entries for last week's theme AND this week's theme





Dear "Tam Ca Càu Nhàu" (MC, BT & Trang) and fellow PNEH,

Hôm nay trời đẹp , đi hiking ở Starved Rock State Park, chụp được 2 tấm hình cho cả đề tài tuần trước ("Chim") và đề tài tuần này ("Brown").

The first picture is of an American Eagle on an Indian totem.  The second is of a Brown Bear, also called a Bruin (hence the name of the Boston hockey team that's fighting it out with Vancouver right now).

So, did I escape the Nagging Music or what? :-)

Triet
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Fw: [MC74 and Friends] My entry for this week theme: BROWN







[MC74 and Friends] My entry for this week theme: BROWN




Dear Em Ci, Mr. Kiu, all PNAH and friends,

  I am FIRST to submit , how about that? YAYAYYYYYYYYY !!!

  The 1st collage is called the many sides of a vase :-)  Russ brought
this back from Asia, I forgot where, but it's made of a special
type of wood that keep the water cool by 'sweating' ...  so
if you fill it with water, you'll see little beads of 'sweat' forming
on the exterieur of the vase and the water keeps really cool...
magic, maybeI should just call it '"the magic water bottle: ?

 The second is made of brown things around the house that
I especially love, Valrhona (nothing unusual here, I always have
a few tablets tucked in my desk drawer :-)), the kangaroos I
brought back from one of my trips down under is actually a
S&P shaker.  I love old wooden baking spoons and my old
'chinese' medecine cabinets with its many many drawers where
I can stash all kinds of knick-knacks :-)

Happy 'brown' shooting !
BT



Re: [MC74 and Friends] BIRDS AND BEES

 

     Hello   2 ba chu ?  blog  et  amis PNEH ,
  
    Ma   participation  au sujet de la semaine  .
    THg



Friday, June 10, 2011

Fw: RE: [MC74 and Friends] Happy Birthday to Bao Tram, Mai Chau, Trang and all of the June babies



My dear Em Cee and BT,

Without much further ado, your triplet would like to submit her self-portrait collage and pic (yes, when it rains, it pours, as is literally the case this minute in the Old Dominion). Not to overwhelm the weekly collage with pics of yours truly however, only the hand-drawn self-portrait should be considered my entry. Sorry this is so last-minute!

About the job offer, I'm not sure what it entails, but it involves nagging, I'm very good at that, having trained a hubby and raised two kids. My kids think I've got the Jewish mom shtick down to an art. I'm not sure the rest of the forum however is ready for three nagging triplets (that sounds kinda awful, doesn't it :-)?

Happy Father's Day to the dads on the forum!

Trang



Thursday, June 9, 2011

My late entry for self portrait



OMG , chers amis .   Đi vắng có 2 tuần thôi ... 128 mails  à savourer ! 

I echo all the comments very true from all our friends ...Sincerest congratulations to all  !
 Je suis bluffée devant tant d' esprits créatifs et artistiques , tant d'idées originales , j'admire vos belles bouilles et jolis minois , m'incline devant tant de talents phó nhòm , họa sĩ , thi sĩ  et surtout je chéri l'essence de notre mutuelle amitié !  Bái tạ và hoan hỉ !

Pour nos natifs de Juin , tous mes voeux  ... Chúc an vui , chúc  khỏe mạnh , chúc thành công  , chúc hạnh phúc nhé

Et ... My apologies for been late  .
Mon  "clin d'oeil "  cho 2 bà chủ nhóm bớt kêu réo .


 Ky-Moon văng nghệ văng gừng
 Tỳ bà khẩy gió lí le phố rùm !


Kim Huong



Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] Re: My first entry for the theme Birds





Dear fellows PNEH, hoa si, thi si, Mr. Kiu, and forum friends,

Music lovers of the forum probably remember one of more recognizable bands of the 60's, The Byrds.  Songs like Turn, Turn, Turn and Mr. Tambourine Man are among their most popular tunes.  So here they are trying to make a comeback just like the rest of the old bands from that era. 

It just so happened that I was able to catch these "Byrds"  J practicing and slipped in a request to sing Happy Birthday to our dear friends Biti, EmCi, Trang, and Thu Huong, all all the June babies.

Let's just say, I was able to kill two birds with one stone !  But not these 2 Byrds, of course J.  Cheers.

Ktc & LH

The Byrds from Texas !



Fw: Re: [MC74 and Friends] BIRDS AND BEES




Hi BT and MC

Greetings from Prague!  Beautiful city, I love the Old town, and we enjoyed a great candle light concert tonight with music from Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Dvorak, Smetana, Mascagni and Bizet, it was wonderful.

Love your birdies photos HL and BT!! I don't have any good birds photos, and walking around today I did not come across any! I found some pictures taken last month at the LA's Museum of Natural History, but they were not so clear, so I had to do some quick photoshop... I know I know, could be better, but hey, I'm on holiday

Cheers
Caro_

Chùm Thơ Xuân / Đoá Hồng Dại

Un bouquet de roses poétiques ( anciennes ) pour me faire pardonner de n 'avoir pas participé au Blog PNEH depuis longtemps - étant prise ces temps ci par mes patients et pas mal de congrès et séminaires de formation continue qui se sont enchainés les WE ( à Paris et en province ) -
Et pour mes amies natives de Juin ( BT ,MC , Trang qui ressemblent à ces roses ) et toutes (et tous ) les autres amis amoureux des fleurs ( hoa hông nào cũng co' gai ! Như vây mi thu' vị .)
đđáp lại chùm thơ Xuân cuả các thi sĩ  Triết, DATuấn,Thúy Châu và Hàn Mạc Thuần ( biết đâu sẽ làm thơ đáp lại ...)
Grace au Blog de BT et MC, j' ai pu visionner tous vos superbes photos, tableaux et contributions récentes sur les portraits et monuments
Merci à tous !
Hy Hoà

Đoá hồng dại

Hãy lặng nghe bằng đôi mắt người tình
Đoá hồng dại khép mình trước ngọn gió
Chim họa mi đáp lại lời tình ca
Một áng mây dừng bước trong  chốc lát


Nắng ban mai ánh hồng khắp chân mây
Như dàn hồng ngang trời giăng ngạt hương
Tiếng chim khuyên đâu đó đã dần tắt
Ngàn sao đêm tỏa nhu vạn cánh hoa
Hoa ơi, hãy phủ kín vườn nhà tôi


Mỗi buổi sáng ngắm thế gian bừng nở
Biết làm sao cảm ơn được tạo hoá
Bao đoá hồng như bao làn môi thơm
Ướm vào tôi như lạc vào thiên đường


Trong chén rượu ta rót chút tình nồng
Màu rượu chát có phải màu hoa máu
Hạnh phúc đó đôi khi trong tầm tay
Kỹ niệm xưa đã trốn vào ký ức


Đoá hồng dại còn bao giờ ngạt ngào
Giấc chiêm bao ...


Hy Hoà 
 thang' 11/2006 ( phỏng theo "Les roses et quatrains d Omar Khayam" )


Monday, June 6, 2011

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] Announcement to PNEH, hoa si, thi si and art critic -Theme for the upcoming week





Happy Monday
Here is my contribution to this week's theme of birds
Have a great week, all
tha^n
MThuy-TD2

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Re: [MC74 and Friends] Announcement to PNEH, hoa si, thi si and art critic -Theme for the upcoming week



I took a stroll in Mile Square park this afternoon and I discovered it had a man-made lake with lots of ducks (uh birds)...
TNS

Sunday, June 5, 2011

Re: [MC74 and Friends] self portrait


How about this self portrait at Miami Beach....It looks better this way :)
Tuan

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] my entries for Self Portrait



Hello everybody

I have not been able to check email regularly during my travels, so I have a lot of catch up to do, but at least I have admired the very expressive, artistic or humoristic portraits of MC, KL, Thuan, Mr Q, TNS, Khiem... I probably have missed quite a few since there has been so many email... so I guess I have to wait for BT and MC's collage to fully appreciate everybody's contribution...

It's hard to select a single photo depicting who you are... and all my photos are in my computer back home...

Oftentimes I reach out to the child I used to be so I'll submit my photo from those happy and carefree days growing up in Saigon, which I just found at my sister's place in Paris, and a recent photo reflecting the essence of who I am.

Cheers
Caro Nhu Hoa







BIRDS


The Flamingos and Parrot are from San Francisco zoo, the Mallards couple are landing on the lake behind my house
Tuan

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] BIRDS AND BEES




Dear HLan,

 Like my Twin, I love your 3 birds ( trop sage :-)) and the colorful red (what kind is it,
do you know?)

 And here's my 3 birds (pas aussi sage :-) en souvenir de Paris :-)) 

Bises,
BT

Re: [MC74 and Friends] Re: My first entry for the theme Birds


Dear Em Ci and friends,

  I love all your bird collage, it reminds me of a certain forum hi hi
 I also love the beautiful salmon color of the swallow shot.

Liem's daughter and her bird's portrait  is gorgeous, the composition,
the expression, tout!

and TNS's birds  make me long for a vacation :-)

I have a few birds up my sleeve as well, so without further ado here
they are:

1. The dance was taken while on a cruise on the SF bay.
I was dancing on the boat trying to take their pictures as well :-)

2. The blue jays , from Eagle Fall at Emerald Bay - Lake Tahoe

3. And lastly, the seagulls  which you might recognize from TH's
beautiful aquarelle.  I need a beachcation !!! :-)


Cheers,
BT

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] BIRDS AND BEES





HELLO  MAI  CHAU ,  BAO  TRAM   AND  FRIENDS
I ' M  JUST  BACK  FROM  BELGIUM   .  HERE  ARE  MY  ENTRIES  :  FEW   PICS   FROM     MONS  '  S   PARK      

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] Re: My first entry for the theme Birds




Dear fellows PNEH, hoa si, thi si, art critic and forum friends,

Here are my other two entries for Birds:

Entry no.2 was taken in springtime near my daughter's school. I saw this little brown sparrow getting himself ready for a new spring day, perched on the branch of a tree with pink and green leaves buds, near a salmon pink color brick wall. The colors of the sparrow, the branches, the buds and the wall exude warmth and serenity.

Entry no. 3 is a photo of one of many beautiful birds found in Nairobi National Park.

Good night and enjoy the rest of your weekend
MC

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Fwd: [MC74 and Friends] Announcement to PNEH, hoa si, thi si and art critic -Theme for the upcoming week



Seagulls on Seal Beach pier. Long Beach coastline is in the background.
TNS

my entries for Birds



Dear fellows PNEH, hoa si, thi si, art critic and forum friends, Running behind the quick and light footsteps of our two PNEH BL and KL, here is my first entry for Birds.

I took this photo at this little park called Ralph Bunche Park on 1st Avenue. On my way to work I often pass by the park and like to take a little time to admire its flowers in spring, summertime and early fall. Last Thursday, I noticed the pigeons at the park, so I went there on Friday at lunch time to take their pictures. Here are some of the Ralph Bunche Park pigeons that I would like to introduce to you.

Good night from Be^n Bo*\ So^ng MC