Bangkok beneath the moonsmile
Someday I want to compile a list of the 10 funniest things I’ve ever seen or heard, and Monday’s celestial smiley face, courtesy of the moon, Venus and Jupiter, will be on it.
What a treat for this glum Land of Smiles to look up at the end of another state-of-emergency day and see the sky grinning at you.
I struggled with camera shake on the telephoto shots, but even when I failed, the light compensated by scrawling messages. I can see Dali’s signature; my wife can see Thai script that we both tried to decipher.
Maybe there’s are secret words in there, but the overall message is unmistakeable: You guys just keep on smiling, and Nature will take care of the rest.
Paul, how fantastic!. And you capturing it on film is even more fantastic. Lucky you and your family.
Here we couldn’t even see the sky through the heavy snow. It’s Monday noon right now, schools are cancelled, mail isn’t delivered, roads aren’t plowed and it’s still snowing! Winter isn’t even here yet either.
Enjoy your nice climate, your ‘Smilie’ moon and tell yourself you want to be back in Canada shovelling snow.re we couldn’t even see the sky
The above was by ‘moi’
A celestial reflection of our lighthearted world.
hey paul, that photo of the moom happy face was amazing, “only in Tialand you say” it keeps you thinking and saying ” What a wonderful world”!!
Great photo! The Universe has a sense of humour. Having a spot of trouble there eh what? Keep your spirits up and your heads down.
I just heard in Canada that ‘moon smile’ will be a ‘moon frown’ but we won’t see it because of clouds.
Lucky Thailand, (in spite of all the trouble.
Somchai Wongsawat, who became Thailand’s prime minister in September after Samak Sundaravej was thrown out of office for earning a little pocket money through television appearances, saw the moonsmile in Chiang Mai. (Anti-government protesters wouldn’t let him return to Bangkok.)
“Today,” he said, “even the moon is smiling at us. It shows that heaven is real.”
About 12 hours later the Constitution Court ruled that Somchai and his People Power Party were guilty of election-rigging and banned him and the party’s other executives from politics for five years, along with their partners in the coalition government.