The cowherder and the weaver – the chinese valentines day story
Once upon a time, there was an orphaned cowherder. One day he spotted seven fairy sisters skinny-dipping in a lake…The story of Chinese Valentines Day.
Tag: Chinese
China Photo: Morning at the market
The food deliveries in China come each morning. Chinese Trucks, motorcycles, dump their loads of fresh greens and the staff goes to work.
Chinese New Year Shopping
Christmas may be shopping craziness in North America, but Chinese New Year is a festival that lasts for 14 days – imagine the shopping that goes into that?
Flowers for Guanyin
The Phoenix Mountain Temple, in the Bao’an District of Shenzhen, China, dates to the 1200s. The temple is dedicated to Guanyin
dawn trees
A thicket, screening a city of 12 million (Shenzhen, China), at dawn.
December’s smiling moon
Thanks to an unusual alignment of the planets Jupiter and Venus, and a crescent moon, those looking heavenward were treated to a celestial smile.
you can take the boy out of the village…
Old habits die hard in China, dried fish being one.
squinting
You see a lot of scooters in China. They are cheap, compared to automobiles.
waiting
We are all waiting for something: For riches, enlightenment …
off-stage attention
I trotted home for my Canon EOS 40D and my new Canon EF 70-200 f/2.8L USM IS lens to shoot the Mid-Autumn Show.