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Open side of the double sided sign. The cedar fence board is from my own fence - we recycled the whole thing by cutting down the boards to make a shorter fence, and the left over pieces for signs and other crafts.
I’ll be starting a series of spring day trips around Chengdu. The first of these is here to the ancient town of Huanglongxi (on Monday, March 7, 2016). Most sites I’ve seen say that the city is 1700 years old. Travel China Guide, however, says its history is “more than 1700 years” and immediately says “Huanglongxi can be dated back to the Western Han (206 BC – 24 AD).” Now, I may not be a genius, but if math serves correctly, 206 + 2016 is close to five centuries older than the 1700 that is advertised. (Travel China Guide also says Huanglongxi is 30 km from Chengdu; Wikipedia says 50 km/30 miles. My personal feeling is that Wikipedia is right, based on the fact that it took over an hour to get to it and only partially through congested city traffic.) So, I took a bus ride down to Shuangliu district southeast of town to spend a few hours wandering around and shooting.
It was a pretty cloudy day, which tampered the shooting a bit, but it was still an enjoyable four hours. I could have stayed longer, and thought a few times that this would be a good place to spend a night sometime, just to shoot in the evening.
I still may do that someday as it’s so accessible. The buses from Chengdu leave starting around seven in the morning (from Xinnanmen) and the last bus back to town is around six in the evening. Day trips are incredibly easy to do, and I think there are a few options for places to stay in the town, so that’s easy to do.
At the town, there are lots of lanes and alleys that turn every which way. There is also a main square (Longtan Square), some water wheels, and a few temples (Gulong Temple, Zhenjiang Temple, Chaoyin Temple) on the main street, along with wharves, two main gates (east and west), and countless shops and restaurants.
I’m glad to say that Huanglongxi is a very pleasant diversion from Chengdu and gives great variety to the options of things we have to do here.
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Thousands of Open billed storks comes to Kulik,Raigang,India from Siberia places.... they lay their eggs, hatch.... feed and during oct. nov. they go back...
A confab with the very young new headman of the village. And take note: even though the boy is very young, all three of his sisters defer to his authority as a male in the household. The Sengoku Jidai was extremely male centric.
Claudia Trindade ministra a oficina Marketing Social no Open Campus 2019. Foto: Gabriela Machado/Famecos/PUCRS
Can anyone recall what the judge's comments were (as I was unable to be there!). But in any case, any comments and advice would be appreciated... I converted this from colour, and thought it improved it... I will provide the original tomorrow.
Vendors and Booths at the 2016 Harrisburg Comic-Con in Harrisburg, PA. See more of our work at www.open.tours