233 - Geisha's door

Dim Sum lays herself on the warm train of the geisha's kimono as her eyes lazily half close while watching the herons dance on the frozen lake.


Lucky day! I found Tsuyu (Liang Scorpio) standing at the patio of the house and she agreed to let me take her pic. I had to derender the basket of oranges and the table itself in the foreground to get a full shot of her gorgeous kimono.

I'm not quite happy with the lighting. There's not enough contrast. I wanted to light her more on the side of the camera, but there was a local light that was too bright from inside the house, so I had no control over how she would be lighted, even if I wore a light that I could reposition. I could have repositioned the sun, but I would have lost the shadows.

model: Tsuyu 梅雨 (liang.scorpio)

location: Yuki No Yume - A Dream of Snow

Technical notes

windlight: AnaLutetia - STUDIO3 (modified)

232 - Leader of the pack

Dim Sum observes the creatures hanging out at the water's edge to try to figure out the difference between seals and sea lions.


The objects say they're seals, but a search on Google says that sea lions have the ear flaps which these have, although some (non-"true") seals have ear flaps.

These seals are by Jon Haskell (AAA Sculpty Creations Animals).

location: Yuki No Yume - A Dream of Snow

Technical notes

windlight: [EUPHORIA] that day (modified)

231 - Surreal stream

Dim Sum watches the melted snow fall from the rocky outcrop down to the stream from which she just lapped some cold water.


I was just too exhausted last weekend to post anything. I was napping on my chair pretty much the whole time I sat on the computer. This past week, I slept no more than 6 hours a night. Mom was in the hospital for 4 days of the week. And I missed a tax return deadline. :(

I've had to do a clean reinstall of Firestorm this morning because my already-short time with "mon loup blanc" kept getting interrupted by crashes every ten minutes for the past couple of weeks. It seems to be more stable now.

Anyway, this is actually the first day that I've felt like I've had time to slow down and take the time to actually enjoy taking pics and (wouldn't you know it!) sorting my inventory! Well, a little bit anyway. Opal's inventory is still a big mess.

Happy Chinese New Year!

location: Yuki No Yume - A Dream of Snow

Technical notes

windlight: (SS) Atmospheric 19:00b (modified)
water: Murky

230 - Lone Tree Way

Dim Sum watches three fashionistas walk down the path on the side of the canyon, as though it were a runway, then fall off the edge when they get to the end.


On the way to my RL sister's house is a street called "Lone Tree Way". You'd think it was an easy name to remember, but each person in the family has called it a different name. It's been called the One Tree Way (a typo if it were written), the Single Tree Way (a synonym), the Cypress Way (we have no idea where this came from), and the best one ever... the Laundry Way (the homophone which my nephew thought it was).

Speaking of homophones, there's a street on my way to work called Deodar Way. And everyday, my GPS says, "Turn left on Deodar Way." Not this way, but Deodar Way.

(For my non-English-native-speaking readers: "Deodar" sounds like "the other".)

location: Yuki No Yume - A Dream of Snow

Technical notes

windlight: [TOR] SUNRISE - Fine Scottish day (modified)

229 - Night doll

Dim Sum listens to the little bird, guarding the little yellow doll in the snow, chirping loudly as if to shoo away all strangers who might steal away its precious little princess.


This is a bit of a rush because I should have been in bed a couple of hours or so ago. But I haven't posted for a long long while.

This looks like a cute snowy sim. This spot is actually right at the landing area. I love little details like this. They make the sim much more interesting.

location: Yuki No Yume - A Dream of Snow

Technical notes

windlight: Riverrock Night (modified)