traditional cambodian wooden furniture
countryside near our new place
River Puok
kids at another swimming hole
teacher parking lot. you can see my ride in the background there...
Baby Yeut. 13 months old and runs around like crazy.
his play pen when the aunties are cooking
gonna be a heartbreaker someday
This is the face he makes whenever he sees a frog or a large bug (note the frog in the left side of the pic
ribbit
Always wants something in his hands...
baby yeut and will hanging out upstairs
sky
coffee shop. they've got 3 tvs playing loudly at the same time. not the most relaxing place but the chairs are comfortable and the price is right.
iced coffee with sweet and condensed milk, and a side of tea when you're done w/ the coffee
Silk farm & weaving school RIGHT near our high school
cocoons
silk worms
i touched one and it was REALLY soft
ooooh... soft!
here the woman is turing the cocoon into thread
here the little cocoons are put in hot water, and they wind the thread onto this spool to collect it. One cocoon has up to 200 or 300meters of thread. Our tour guide opened one up and Will ate it. He said it needed salt.
tiny tiny threads
here they showed all the different things they use to dye the silk
threads that had been dyed, but not washed yet. She said they use hair shampoo to wash the silk
dying some of the thread a deep red color (in a hot boiling pot of water)
Here the woman is creating a design on the slik by tying plastic pieces around different areas of the thread to create a pattern
handweaving a scarf on a loom with this pattern takes about 6 or 7 days
very difficult pattern
an antique loom
preying mantis on Will's shorts
countryside and some clouds
i LOVE these clouds
oh, and we found the country club where the golf course is going. just 3k west of town. kind of an abomination.
