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This was all set for Foto-Friday, and as usual the local internet cables were disconnected while being buried. Not only was the internet disconnected then, but it was for the whole weekend, so I never even got it on Weekend Exposure. Then I tried posting it on Moody Monday. No luck, in fact I had no internet for a whole week. What's worse, the internet stopped while I was in the middle of posting this, and only a part of the commentary posted, and none of the groups got this, so only a couple of newsviners even saw it and commented. They must have me on their watchlist to even know this was on Newsvine. Anyway, things are back to sort of normal so I'm posting this now. This is just another scattered group of snapshots in no particular order depicting what this expat Canadian has seen in China.
1 Does she look like a biker lady to you? Actually she is a participant in the mah jong tournament in photo # 15.
2 Date tree. This one is at least 1,000 years old. The farmers don’t pick the dates by hand. They spread a big plastic sheet around the trunk and beat the tree with long sticks. They then spread the dates on a large plastic sheet in the sun to dry, so the dates end up looking like small red prunes.
3 Chinese traditional roof lines in ancient Langmei. The roofs on many new modern buildings, incuding multi-storied ones, are given this traditional shape.
4 The way to Songshan Mountain at Shaolin Temple. I rode in that thing, and don’t think I wasn’t a little scared. It just took us to the starting point to climb up the mountain.
5 Canyon waterfall at the Geological Canyon near Luoyang. I guess I was feeling a little shaky that day.
6 The catwalk along the inner canyon at the Luoyang Geological Canyon. You can see the river rushing through at the bottom.
7 I have no idea what this was about, outside a Zhengzhou bookstore.
8 Fruit shopping in LongHu. LongHu translates as Dragon Lake. It is a suburban college town just south of Zhengzhou, the capital city of Henan Province in north central China.
9 At King Park in Luoyang. They are not toy boats. This is looking down from far above at boats that people foot-pedal. King Park is the location of the annual Peony Festival that takes place mid April. The Peony is the national flower of China, and the name of a book about China written by Pearl S. Buck.
10 A house in the ancient village of Langmei
11 Happiness is…..being a Langmei resident.
12 Roof decorations in ancient Langmei. You will notice that they don’t use shingles here. Almost all roofs are roof tiles.
13 Langmei Transportation Commission. I would like to put a bumper sticker on the back of it to say: “My other vehicle is a Mercedes limousine.”
14 At Longman Grottoes, Luoyang. No Taliban here to blow them up, but Mao’s Red Guard did a lot of damage to many historical sites, including this one. The Japanese also did considerable destruction during their invasion at the time of WW2, wherever they occupied. Some people might consider the recent Japanese tragedy to be karma for what they did in China, especially in Nanjing (Nanking)..
15 Mahjong tournament under the trees in LongHu. When I was a little boy my mother taught me how to play, but I forgot how long ago.
16 Buddhist monastery through the mist, across the river from Longman Grottoes near Luoyang.
17 On the Yellow River, near Luoyang. I had a delicious fresh seafood and fish lunch with fresh picked veggies on board a houseboat near here.
18 Hand painted ceiling of a small open pagoda
19 Toronto’s longest street is called “Yonge Street”. When I saw this sign, I thought it must be the longest street in the world..
