The Little Things...

There is a lovely bakery called Heavenly Bread. There are actually numerous bakeries here  for us to admire. 

Claire trying to find just ONE thing to buy!

CEIA--oh how we love you, our favorite brazillian steakhouse! You fill us with such goodness and the love from the waitresses is second to none. Ceia will be one very sad goodbye.

yeah, Mya. She is a personality like no other.

Lovin on some Orange Fanta. Another favorite since arriving in Korea.

Beautiful flowers providing a border to the rice fields. 

The raised grassy mounds in the background are actually burial plots. They are all over Korea--roadside, on hills, hidden in a secluded area. They are raised to replicate the womb in which they entered this world. 

Bindgo ditches or as Claire still refers to them , "dindgo bitches." We find it too cute that we can't bring ourselves to correct her. This is the Korean drainage system to protect from flooding during monsoon season. They are all over. We actually have one in our backyard.

There are planter boxes everywhere. I find it ironic something so dirty and which most would consider trash, is used to grow something so fresh and lovely.

little rivers. This one is just across the road from our development. Rivers are pretty plentiful  but none give me the desire to jump in. In fact, the base was recently offering parasailing excursions at the Han River in Seoul to which Chris and I replied in unison, 'No way." Nasty, dirty water.

onions growing roadside. it just never gets old.

the quirks of using english. there are plenty of examples of this all around korea. they get close, but it is still not quite right. i have to take more pictures of these. they make me laugh and for me, truly symbolize korea--American influences, becoming a more and more modernized culture with pieces of tradition interspersed, but still--not quite right.

I find myself thinking quite frequently now, how we only have 9 or so months left in Korea. There are so many things I want and plan to do before we leave. There are also so many things that we love here or have grown to love, but for whatever reason, haven't captured that memory on film. Today was a bit of doing just that. Trying to capture some of the ordinary things that we love or unique pieces of Korea that I find beautiful.