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The chocolate bar wrappers of shiny gold and silver. If I didn't so take them for granted, I'd keep each and every one.

Rather than crumpling them up and throwing them away once the chocolate is gone.

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I've kept quite a few actually, especially the small ones of various colors from the Sjaak's vegan chocolates (they closed up shop a year ago but still haven't taken down their no-longer-functional website; odd. It no longer even shows the popup message about having closed up shop. Very odd). Compressed into various shapes, still some on this table, and in the container on that table, and in the box I brought back from work when the office was shut down.

I'm sitting outside in the sunshine, working. Every once in a while I see a round white fluffy thing floating by on the breeze. ( Tiny seeds with a ball of white hairs spread out around them - they look like these thistle seeds but are more likely from some nearby tree. Cottonwood, maybe. )

I look up, and up there, many many of these fluffy things are drifting by, glowing even brighter in the sunlight as they pass near the sun.

My camera does not pick them up well against the sky.

I chase a few, and catch one, and take it inside to get some close-up photos of it. Then I release it back outside, and it floats away.

What to call them? "Parachute seed" doesn't seem to do them justice, these delicate light floaty spheres.

I like this Vietnamese song, it's rather catchy:

Video title: Liên Khúc Nhạc Xuân 2021 Remix KHÔNG QUẢNG CÁO - TẾT TẾT TẾT ĐẾN RỒI Mừng Năm Mới Phát Tài Phát Lộc
Posted by: Kho Nhạc Xuân Remix
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVEmLZpsuUM
Date posted: Jan 11, 2021


The above video is simple but oddly mesmerizing A young woman smiles a lot and walks through some flower beds and blossoming trees, in slow motion. There are fireworks effects overlayed. I wondered if those fireworks are meant to reflect how the woman feels (bursting with happiness about something/someone), or how someone else feels about her.

Not until watching the next video with another version of the same song, and translating the song name (Tet Tet Tet is coming), did I remember that Tet is the word for the Vietnamese New Year's celebration.

These are the BEST fireworks I've ever seen in a video. If you missed seeing ones in person this year, this may be worth watching in full screen:



Video title: Liên khúc nhạc xuân: Tết tết tết đến rồi + Xuân xuân ơi xuân đã về
Posted by: Trung Bui Thanh
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaN85BSLnMU
Date posted: Jan 28, 2019

(Did that firework display really go on for 32 whole minutes?!!)


The laser light effects in the beginning of the next video are spectacular (and the fireworks are nice too though they don't show up nearly as clearly as the prior video).
Based on the comments, they told people there wouldn't be a display this year to avoid crowds from gathering, but then did this after all and broadcast it live!



Video title: London's 2021 fireworks 🎆 Happy New Year Live! 🔴 BBC
Posted by: BBC
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpJIg_3DnLk
Date posted: Streamed live on Dec 31, 2020