Snow in Chapel Hill

Starting on the Christmas day around 8pm in 2010, a snow storm went through eastern United States. The snow continued until afternoon the day after Christmas accumulating over 6 inches of snow in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It was a presently surprised that we really had a white Christmas. While the snow was still going on on 26th December 2010 morning, we took our camera and walked around outside. We were amazed on what nature can do.

When the snow flake was settling on the trees, it turned all tree branches into white color. The outcome was absolutely beautiful. Unfortunately, it was cloudy. If we has blue sky, the photo would be much more attractive.

Puppet in New Orleans

There are talented people everywhere. On 18 November 2010, we walked by the French Quarter in New Orleans right before dark. We saw this artist playing with his puppet. He had a recorded song playing next to him and then he made the puppet moved just like the puppet was singing the song. The puppet mouth opened and closed according to the music lyrics. The puppet hands and foots moved just like a real person singing in front of a microphone. The puppet was so real and it shows some unbelievable movement. When the song was about to finish, the puppet even walked over to the console and turned the music off. It was simply amazing to see that.

In normal life, hopefully, we do not want to be someone's puppet. We would like to have our minds controlled by ourselves. However, we have seen a lot of human puppets around controlled by their bosses, their spouses, their kids, etc. One thing nice about being a puppet is that one does not have to think, just do as told as if there is a string pulling.