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Street Performer in Temple of Heaven
In my humble opinion, the Temple of Heaven in Beijing is the least "must-see" among Beijing's must-see tourist destinations. Aside from the actual Temple of Heaven, the rest of the temples in this vast place are ordinary by Beijing's temple standards.
But what sets this place apart is the many street performers you will see there. It's a collection of different performers, from musicians, to dancers, to martial artists and some showcasing traditional chinese sports.
Like this charming old chinese playing his traditional musical instrument. After playing, he asked for a dollar from a foreigner video filming him.
"One dollar..."
The caucasian man smiled and walked away.
Sempre in quel quartiere ;)
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Beh, mi sono un pò ammalata.... e così mi sono presa un pò di pausa. A volte servono queste giornate, senza lavoro, senza nulla da fare, con i pensieri liberi di vagare. Un caffè. Qualcosa in televisione. Un libro dimenticato da tempo che si desiderava tanto leggere. E le mie foto da sistemare... :)
Benritrovati a tutti!!!! Piano piano arrivo con i commenti....
Well, I was a bit sick.... so i took a little break. Sometimes we need these days, no work, nothing to do, with the thoughts free to roam. A coffee. Something on TV. A forgotten book that you wanted so much to read. And my photos to arrange ... :)
Welcome back everyone!! Slowly I catch up with you for comments ....
At my delivery in Chehalis Washington, backed into my dock, then grabbed my camera to take this picture. Only 100 feet from the front of my truck. Tough job, huh?
note: My camera is set to Central time zone, but obviously Washington is Pacific, so two hours different.
Here's a link to the other shots I had to pick from. I liked all of them, but had to make a decision.
...one to go.
Every morning, one of the first things that I do is put in my contact lenses.
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Artist Point and Mt. Shuksan. And that looks like one interesting way to get back down the mountain!
A perfect boy that I released on 10/1 decided to visit me today, 10/6, in the garden!
I wish he would set his GPS and get flying off to Mexico... it's getting late!!!
INTERESTING FACT:
Monarch Butterflies have an internal compass. The sun keeps them on course as well as the earth's magnetic field to help them navigate 2,500 miles to Mexico!
Welcome to beautiful San Diego County!
San Diego County boasts the biggest bird list of any county
or of any area of equal size in the United States
(The San Diego County Bird Atlas):
over 520 species across the county!
This is my submission for the theme “Skies” in the group Smile on Saturday. The pilot is a local gentleman in his 80’s who has done stunt flying for years. This was a day in spring when he decided to do one last show before retiring for good. He put on a great show and showed us all how to live life to the fullest as long as you can. He also owned a pub that was beside a dam which was called the Dam Pub. It has moved locations but it is still in business.
World Trade Center, Manhattan, New York
Click on the photo to view it larger...one lonely stroller is walking the beach by the highlight reflection at the water's edge.
now the whole hole-story ...
you can guess it, it's a Tadao Ando and here you can see the opposite direction to Hilde's photo we uploaded a few days ago ...
Ando does what he often does, he combines water with concrete and glass, and combines building parts in a special angle to each other and combines a closed building part with an open building part, which at first still one-sided with roof dissolves later in a wall and roofless row of columns (you will see it later) ...
but the hinge from the closed to the open part of the building, which intersects with the main path, is decisive.
Here he makes a round recess in the roof. which marks the entrance and creates funny light and shadow games all day long ... the circle wanders and gets with the walls and the different substrates, like materials always new aspects ... so simple and easy ... so good ...
Man kann es erraten, es ist ein Tadao Ando und hier sieht man die entgegengesetzte Richtung zu Hildes Foto, das wir vor einigen Tagen hochgeladen haben ...
Ando macht, was er oft macht, er kombiniert Wasser mit Beton und Glas, und kombiniert Gebäudeteile in einem besonderen Winkel zueinander und kombiniert einen geschlossenen Gebäudeteil mit einem offenen Gebäudeteil, das zunächst noch einseitig gefasst, mit Dach, sich nachher in eine wand- und dachlose Stützenreihe auflöst (ihr werdet es später noch sehen) ...
aber entscheidend ist das Gelenk, oder das Schanier vom geschlossenen zum offenen Gebäudeteil das sich mit dem Hauptweg kreuzt. Hier macht er eine runde Aussparung ins Dach, die den Eingang markiert und den ganzen Tag lustige Licht- und Schattenspiele erzeugt ... der Kreis wandert und bekommt mit den Wänden und den verschiedenen Untergründen, wie Materialen, immer neue Aspekte ... so schlicht und einfach ... so gut ...
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