Enjoying Montblanc Pens — Broad, Oblique, Extra Fine, Le & Bespoke

[Tom Kellie]

At the Hong Kong Wetland Park

~ The rare experience of serving as a university faculty member for twenty uninterrupted, consecutive years in mainland China has been made possible by the support of thoughtful friends.

Writing with fountain pens has been a deeply meaningful part of my life here, offering solace when the situation is awkward or harsh.

Reading posts in Fountain Pen Network's Montblanc Forum has been a cherished part of my life in recent years.

Tom K.

[Tom Kellie]

Yubi the Fountain Pen-friendly Puppy

[Ghost Plane]

Awwwwwww

[Stompie]

  On 5/9/2018 at 10:41 AM, Tom Kellie said:

 

Yubi the Fountain Pen-friendly Puppy

 

 

Which one is Yubi?

 

[Barry Gabay]

Beautiful sentiments and photographs, Tom. Each of your posts enriches us about some aspect of handwriting, fountain pens, nibs, dogs, photography, and simply being a genuine person. Thank you, sir, for all you contribute.

[farmdogfan]

  On 5/9/2018 at 4:13 AM, Tom Kellie said:

 

At the Hong Kong Wetland Park

~ The rare experience of serving as a university faculty member for twenty uninterrupted, consecutive years in mainland China has been made possible by the support of thoughtful friends.

Writing with fountain pens has been a deeply meaningful part of my life here, offering solace when the situation is awkward or harsh.

Reading posts in Fountain Pen Network's Montblanc Forum has been a cherished part of my life in recent years.

Tom K.

 

What a wonderful butterfly!

[Ghost Plane]

Is that Lantana? And anyone entomologist enough to answer if that’s a variant of the monarch flutterbys migrating in the Western Hemisphere?

[jmccarty3]

  On 5/9/2018 at 10:41 AM, Tom Kellie said:

 

Yubi the Fountain Pen-friendly Puppy

 

 

Tom--

 

Congratulations on the renewal of your contract. It's a delight to see another photo of Yubi.

 

Jay

[Tom Kellie]

Lovable Yubi

Breeze-blown Look

May Flowers Yubi

Beside Red Amaryllis

[Inky.Fingers]

[Ghost Plane]

  On 5/11/2018 at 7:20 AM, Tom Kellie said:

 

Lovable Yubi

Breeze-blown Look

May Flowers Yubi

Beside Red Amaryllis

Warm fuzzies

[empliau]

I love the new Yubi photos! Windblown Yubi is especially cute. Such a good boy!

[BlueJ]

Sorry to reopen a sad subject, but now that Yubi is walking outside, what measures are you taking to protect him from Zuji's unfortunate fate?

[meiers]

  On 5/12/2018 at 3:20 AM, BlueJ said:

Sorry to reopen a sad subject, but now that Yubi is walking outside, what measures are you taking to protect him from Zuji's unfortunate fate?

Tom knows what to do.

[niksch]

  On 5/9/2018 at 4:13 AM, Tom Kellie said:

 

At the Hong Kong Wetland Park

~ The rare experience of serving as a university faculty member for twenty uninterrupted, consecutive years in mainland China has been made possible by the support of thoughtful friends.

Writing with fountain pens has been a deeply meaningful part of my life here, offering solace when the situation is awkward or harsh.

Reading posts in Fountain Pen Network's Montblanc Forum has been a cherished part of my life in recent years.

Tom K.

 

 

We love you too, Tom.

[da vinci]

  On 5/8/2018 at 5:00 AM, Tom Kellie said:

 

Belated congratulations Tom, on a fabulous achievement and career milestone. I hope that something suitable will be purchased to mark the event?

[Tom Kellie]

  On 5/9/2018 at 8:18 PM, Ghost Plane said:

Is that Lantana? And anyone entomologist enough to answer if that’s a variant of the monarch flutterbys migrating in the Western Hemisphere?

 

~ Ghost Plane:

 

It's Danaus genutia on Asclepias curassavica.

Danaus genutia is widespread in India, where it's known as the “Common Tiger” butterfly.

It's in the same family as North America’s Danaus plexippus, the Monarch butterfly.

The flower is Asclepias curassavica, or “Tropical Milkweed”, also called “Bloodflower”. It's an introduced species in Hong Kong.

I apologize for failing to include the identification in the original post.

Tom K.

[Lam1]

Tom, congratulations on your contract. That is quite an achievement!

 

Yubi is absolutely lovely! Such a cute little guy!

 

I'm enjoying my latest arrival, a Blue hour with an oblique broad nib

 

 

It was a bit of a surprise to see the OB nib, since I ordered a BB. But, since when I bought it I hesitated between the BB and an OB, all is well!

 

Some more pics (sorry for the bad photos. My abilities are very limited and this is a hard pen to photograph).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Tom Kellie]

  On 5/9/2018 at 2:11 PM, Stompie said:

 

Which one is Yubi?

 

 

 

~ Stompie:

 

The photogenic one.

Tom K.

[Tom Kellie]

  On 5/9/2018 at 3:56 PM, farmdogfan said:

What a wonderful butterfly!

 

~ farmdogfan:

 

Thank you so much!

It was an active flyer, which increased the value of the handheld, manual focus image.

BTW: Today I made an image with you in mind.

When it's posted, you'll know why I selected a certain flower as a backdrop, in order to express my respect for your photography.

Tom K.