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China, Pull up a seat

Pull up a Seat Photo Challenge 2019-Week 42

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A PHOTO CHALLENGE OF PLACES WE SIT…OR MIGHT SIT…OR ART ABOUT SITTING

Welcome to week 42 of the Pull up a Seat Challenge in 2019.

Take a load off and share a favorite perch by linking your post to this one, either with a comment or ping-back. For more detailed directions go to Pull Up a Seat page.

It is always fun to see the variety of ideas.

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China

Cable lines

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I didn’t walk up all 7000, or however many, stairs there are going up Taishan. It took me so long to get to the halfway point that we decided to take the cable way to the top. But I didn’t feel deprived: there were plenty more stairs once you got to the top!

Stairs at the top of Taishan.

I have to commend my son’s excellent “parenting” skills: he let me figure out for myself that the cable way was the path of wisdom. Only later did he confess that he had been figuring that he could wear my backpack on his front going up the steepest part and was, even at that, trying to figure out how to prevent me from falling. He had been up before and the steepest part was yet to come and much steeper than the stretches that had challenged me.

For Becky of Winchester’s Lines and Squares-Day 19

China, Pull up a seat

Pull up a Seat Photo Challenge 2019-Week 41

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A PHOTO CHALLENGE OF PLACES WE SIT…OR MIGHT SIT…OR ART ABOUT SITTING

Welcome to week 41 of the Pull up a Seat Challenge in 2019.

Take a load off and share a favorite perch by linking your post to this one, either with a comment or ping-back. For more detailed directions go to Pull Up a Seat page.

It is always fun to see the variety of ideas.

Continue reading Pull up a Seat Photo Challenge 2019-Week 41 →
China, Shouguang

More Fishing lines…or is that lines fishing…or a line-up of folks fishing?

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Several people fishing under a weeping willow tree on the banks of the Mihe River in Shouguang, Shandong Province, China.
The straight rods of “fish people” on the Mihe River in Shouguang, Shandong Province, China.

Someone I met in Shouguang referred to his (many) fellow citizens who fished along the banks of the Mihe as “fish people”. One does not see a lot of catching so, perhaps, it is the act of fishing that is the goal.

For Becky of Winchester’s Lines & Squares: Day 15

…and Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Lines seems appropriate also: since these folks are having fun with lines.

China

A bit blurry, but quite linear

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More power lines today, I seem to take a lot of them. This was taken from a fast, 305km/hr, moving train in Shandong Province of China.

A square format image of green houses and a power station taken from a fast train in Shandong Province, China.
Vegetable greenhouses and power lines in Shandong Province, China

This scene is representative of Shandong Province, there are lots and lots and lots of these green houses. Shandong is the fruit and vegetable basket of China…with a fair bit of industry thrown in.

For Becky of Winchester’s Lines & Squares-Day 8

China, Shouguang, Snapshots from a Happy Life

Bronze deer

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These are in a park in Shouguang, Shandong Province, China. If you decide to go looking for them they are at a park on the east bank of the Mihe River, north of Shengcheng Jie (one of the main roads into the city). Since they are not very near the river they may still be there (much of the area near the river banks was under construction during my visit last spring). I’ll have to go and seek them out on my next visit.

For Mind over Memory’s Sculpture Saturday.

China, Shouguang, Snapshots from a Happy Life

Children Playing

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Here is another sculpture installation that I really liked by the Mihe River in Shouguang, China. It was fun to see it with the different river levels.

Mihe River construction project in SHouguang, Weifang Prefecture, Shandong Province, China.
I really hope that someone saved it before the bulldozers came.

This is another of the sculptures that was located in an area that was under construction the last time I was there.

For Mind Over Memory’s Sculpture Saturday

China, Picture Galleries, Shouguang, Snapshots from a Happy Life

Getting around in Shouguang

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One really fun thing to notice when traveling is how people get around. I live in an area where it seems like all the cars look pretty much the same. Here is a gallery of some of the variety I saw while visiting my son recently in a small-ish Chinese city. Click on an image to see it larger.

I really admire how many options people have beyond taking the bus and owning a full size car.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Things People Drive