Pudding and Chopsticks

Just some photos from last weekends excursion to Hangzhou.

Pagoda

School Track

West Lake Water Show

Picnic Time.

With Blossoms. Apparently the two sides blossom at different times.

Last week without.

Cherry Blossom outing. Yeah!

Cherry Blossom outing. Yeah!

I promise someday I’ll go into the den of the tiger and take some photos from over where the construction is. I drove past it yesterday and it is MIND BLOWING.

Anyway..

I was out taking photographs last Sunday and stumbled upon this fine gentleman fishing, or rather emptying his traps for fish and treasure.

I guess it happens every week. Sunday.

Went out again to shoot some photographs.

This should keep you tied over until I can sort the rest of them.

A panoramic of the lake river thing and all the construction going on behind it. Less than two years ago only one building was standing.. Now it’s, well, too many to count.

You notice this sometimes. It appears to be built sometime in the past. Not used and now it getting demolished.

You see how this works. A developer made money, the construction company made money. Everyone made money. But perhaps one person got had and ripped off. But everyone else made money. And in China if the person that is getting ripped off doesn’t know or isn’t smart enough to catch that fact, well, then he deserves to be ripped off and it’s all fair game.

Either way there are so many of these places around that it’s kinda crazy. Built for nothing basically.

The sign outside states that it is a parking lot. For what, your guess is as good as mine.

It’s Saturday, which means lunch at the local Sichuan place. Booyaah… My stomach is literally doing a waltz in anticipation.

It’s been sunny the last few days. Good photographs to be had. everywhere.

I headed out to check out some Japanese Cherry Blossoms last Sunday. But to my dismay they had not opened yet.

Perhaps this weekend they will.

Either way here are some photos of what appears to be a dead orchard. But I assure you in a week this will be super awesome looking. Hopefully I’ll get a chance to get back out there.

There were lots of people there enjoying the.. dead looking trees. Some people brought tents and hide in them from the sun. There were lots ob BBQing going on. And of course my friend and I were the only white people there. Not unusual. This tree farm is out of the way a bit. Unless you are in the know, read Chinese, or have a significant other that finds these things out, you just don’t know about them. I had to admit though, being alone there was boring. And since the flowers hadn’t bloomed yet, well, there wasn’t really anything to photograph. I suppose there was, but I was in it for the hero shots. Haha or something like that. Next time.