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43 of 365: Present, past & future in one image. Construction work beneath the 100-year old Walterdale Bridge (which needs so much repair that it has to be replaced) in preparation for the building of the new bridge. In the background is a semi-frozen North Saskatchewan River. More photos and information here: www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151423862503812.50890...
Temple of the Six Banyan Trees in Guangzhou is a 1400－year－old Buddhist monastery, dating from 537AD during China's Southern and Northern Dynasties Period, when Buddhism in China was in its prime. Emperor Wu of the Liang Dynasty in South China was the most zealous devotee of Buddhism among all the emperors throughout the history of China. At that time, a Buddhist priest called Tanyu, who was a maternal uncle of Emperor Wu, was planning to bring the Buddhist relic they got in Cambodia to Guangzhou from Nanjing. To await the arrival of this Buddhist relic, the then governor of Guangzhou, Xiao Yu by name, specially had this temple built. The original structure of the temple was destroyed by fire in the middle of the 10th century during the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty. The existing temple was built in 989 and the pagoda was reconstructed in 1097.