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Making Street Food

Just finished my first full day in Nanjing, which involved lots of walking around and taking pictures. I am already on a fairly normal schedule, which feels lucky.

These first pictures are all from within a short walk from the gate nearest my brother’s dormitory at the university. There is, of course, lots of street food, but also a fair bit of multiple people throwing food into the cooking area, working fluidly in combination.

I’ll be posting pictures, I hope daily, at my Flickr stream in a set called China.

Outside My Front Door

This is the view straight outside the front door of my building. Soon I’ll be going a lot further than this – I’ll be visiting my brother, who is living in China now. I’ve always had a knack for language, but I’ll be in a place where I can’t read the signs, and can’t understand the chatter around me, and the thought is frightening.

I hate to be rushed – you know, like I am now, getting ready to leave – so I won’t be trying to cover great swaths of that enormous country, but I will try to truly see whatever I look at. And come back with some good pictures.

Mount

… to dismount.

How about That Weekly Shot?

Mr Bun is so tired of my lame excuses, but I have been taking pictures, I swear. I am suffering from two problems: not doing the processing and not doing the writing about what I learned. Also, not doing the planning for the next shot. OK, three problems.

I’ll be doing some traveling from the end of next week, and I’m a little frantic while I get ready. I’ll still do shots there, though – in fact, maybe particularly good ones (we’ll see), because I’ll be seeing my brother, and he’s much more creative than I am.

In the meantime, I’ll be the object of plenty of eye rolling and weary yawns from the little emperor.