Here spring is a strange time. There is snow in the mountains, and none in the valleys. One day is is nice weather, and another it’s snowing.
But… the wind is always blowing. It’s usually really strong, and really cold. It never stops.
A week ago my family build a bird garden. It has food and water for the birds. A lot of birds come in the mornings. You can hear a lot of nice bird songs. This morning, it was snowing. The birds were hiding in the brush, so we heard the bird songs, but they ate all the food!
Picture: Two white capped sparrows, male and female.
A friend told me about a photography group. It is call PhotoWalking Utah. It has professionals and amateurs, skilled and unskilled people. They all love photography.
Last weekend we went to the Moran Eye Centre. It is one of the top five best eye research institution in the U.S. One of the lab heads was very generous. They opened up the laboratories to the group. We could photograph whatever we wanted.
After three hours Ann Torrence taught a little about Photoshop.
コンプータ科学にゲームとシミュレーションはとても有用です。有名なコンプータ科学者の中で少しが大学にが模型の列車を作りました。１９４６年からＭＩＴで「Tech模型の列車のクラブ」（Tech Model Railroad Club）は重要の場所です。大学生がコンプータ科学の知識を試験をします。あのウェブサイトであるビデオです：
Yesterday our family went to a model train show.
Model trains is a traditional American hobby. When I was a child my father helped me build model trains. My mother also had model trains. Today children play video games. Not as many people build model trains today.
The model train clubs have clever and talented people. They make many beautiful dioramas for the trains to run through. Dioramas depicting mountains, ravines, towns, local places, old times, and other themes are popular.
People work hard to make the dioramas beautiful and detailed. People even make functional train signals. Small computers, radio controls, electric switching help make the hobby interesting.
Legos are very popular toys among children. Lego trains are fun, but have functionality similar to traditional model trains. Maybe Legos will help keep interest the traditional hobby.
They have clever people who made many scenes. I liked the train yard. Here are some buildings that are modeled after real buildings.
Games and simulations are important to computer science. Some famous computer scientists built model railroads in college. Since 1946 the Tech Model Railroad Club at MIT has been an important place for students to test computer science ideas. Here is a video from the club web site: (see video above)
After Christmas we went to my mom’s house. One morning I woke up and looked outside through the window. Are those pussy willows? No, it’s winter. They’re snow willows.
We have two cats at home. Because of Christmas, my boy wanted to go to the pet store and buy some cat presents. So today he and I went to the pet store. He chose a cat toy, etc.
When we go to the pet store, my son likes to look at the hamsters, mice, etc. Because he’s becoming more responsible I bought two gerbils. Taking care of gerbils is easy, clean, and not stinky.
The light brown gerbil’s name is “Raezy” (ray-zee). The grey one’s name is “Jerris”. The two are young and cute.
I put the cage on the book shelf, but now the two cats are standing there looking at the gerbils. It’s a lazy cats’ TV!
We don’t see Japanese things around here. Today I was driving south on the Interstate. I saw something surprising. There was a large truck. I saw the name of a Japanese company on the door in kanji and kana.
I quickly took one picture with my iPhone. (Taking a picture while driving is dangerous. Please don’t!) You can see “米国ヤマト運輸” (USA Yamato Transportation) in the picture. There are a cat and a kitten. The cat is carrying the kitten.
We don’t see Japanese things around here. Today was a lucky day.
投稿: rithban 
投稿: rithban 
投稿: rithban 
