We went to Rodeo Beach area and hiked along the costal trail loop. Along 5 miles trail landscape started from lagoon and beach, changed to hills over sea view, and merged in the foggy ridge trails. It's wonderful place with lots of birds near lagoon. And we even saw river

Blog post about the plants I saw this time visiting Mt Rainier. A question about wildspread native flowers there versus California situation, https://x.com/JianfeiHu/status/1949645699987247490 Summer flowers, along the paradise area, you mostly see a few dominating species. Dominated flowers in paradise mountain health, 松毛翠. health family

When traveling in Seattle recently, I had an opportunity to tour wastewater treatment at King County west point site. The tour is  informative and well-organized. After the tour, I got much more understanding the complexity of an often taken for granted aspect of our daily life. Let's see how it

We visited Musuem of Flight July 29, 2025. Luckily a public free tour guide was available by then and it was a wonderful experience. This post is focused on Wright Brothers story. While everyone knows their success, the narrative is so personal and approchable: inventors are no more than common

A trip to UK Scotland highland in a day trip. Very rewarding.

SF botanical garden visiting notes.

这周末去南湾看了两个加州本地植物的花园，一个叫GNGT的活动。

最近旅途路上看完了这本《全球通史 下》，非常推荐。好的历史书要解决两个任务：清晰的叙述历史本身, what happened; 和有立场观点的解读，而不是让历史成为冗长的细节堆砌。全球通史完美的做到了这一点。