Welcome to week 30 of the Pull up a Seat Challenge in 2020.
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I’ve been loving this anemone patch the past few days so here’s another view, from below.
For Becky of Winchester’s July Squares: Perspective…and Cee’s Flower of the Day.
This view of Mount Rainier from Kautz Creek demonstrates how things nearby appear larger. These aren’t even old growth trees!
There is not a vanishing point in the above photo, but the buildings appear smaller farther away. That’s probably accurate: Chonqing is huge and the urban area extends as far as you can see.
The next one,taken a couple of years earlier, is downstream from Chongqing city. The water is brown because of flooding, when the river runs normally it is green.
I have always loved the elegance of cable stay suspension bridges. When I was in college, a very, very long time ago I was part of a team that built a model cable stay bridge that won a contest (a nerdy kind of contest where you were judged on things like displacement and strength over weight, as opposed to total weight, although there was a minimum load it had to bear.) These bridges along the Yangtze reminded me of that.
We only had two full, very jet lagged, days in Buenos Aires and it seemed to spin around. Maybe the obelisk is its pivot point. It surprised me how such a large thing could hide so easily and suddenly pop out as one emerged from a little side street.
Of course you had a climb up to get to the view.
Yishan is an interesting place. It is not as famous or tall as Taishan, but it was important in the traditional worship and the emperors did come here for some rites. It is known as “little Taishan”. Fortunately the climb was not as intimidating either.
We were really fortunate because we caught a re-enactment of one of the imperial rites at Dongzhen at the base of the mountain when we came back down.
It was interesting to see how the things we see were used.
This is 90 mile beach in New Zealand. It’s not actually 90 miles long, the Wiki says 88 km. It is however long enough to be rather amazing. It is no longer as useable as it once was as weather patterns have changed and the dunes have built up blocking access and egress, or just making them very difficult.
This photo of our tour bus gives you an idea of the magnitude of the beach.
We walked the other way. This is part of the Jiankou section of the Great Wall of China facing toward the Beijing knot.
Welcome to week 29 of the Pull up a Seat Challenge in 2020.
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Continue reading Pull up a Seat Photo Challenge 2020-Week 29To grasp of the magnitude of the terracotta warriors in Xian you have to look at both the overall installation (the picture below is one of at least three areas).
and close up. There are many different figures with different hair styles, facial features and positions…and they were all painted. The number of craftsmen who worked on it must have rivaled the size of an army!
Putting it all together in the first place was an amazing feat. Rebuilding it is even more of one.
Crafts people are still working on it now, rebuilding the figures for future generations to appreciate. It has to be the ultimate jigsaw puzzle.
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