Day 221: Bamboo
On a Sunday walk through the Former French Concession we passed this man maneuvering his load of bamboo through traffic. Although the larger construction projects use steel, many of the smaller scale...
View ArticleDay 236: Disembarking
Shanghai is a city split by a river, the old city, The Bund and the former French Concession on the west and Lujiazui, the new Shanghai of ultra high-rise skyscrapers on the east. The ferry is my...
View ArticleDay 240: Blue
times there is no reason for a picture other than I like it; the color, the symmetry, the mood, the moment. This is one of those pictures.
View ArticleDay 241: Chengguan
This group of nine officers behaved more like a street gang, roughly pushing and shoving bikes and scooters, and other things out of their way as they swarmed down the street. The people just stepped...
View ArticleDay 246: Every Day is Laundry Day
Apartments in China can be small and appliances such as clothes dryers rare, so it is quite common to see clothing hanging outside to dry. In fact, I had to argue with our Ayi when we first got here...
View ArticleShanghai Farewell Tour: Tying up Loose Ends
Ten more days. That’s it. Trish and Larry are safely back home again in Indiana, Melinda is in Redmond working and searching for a new place to live in Seattle and Thoraxis and I are wrapping up things...
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