This week is the Dashanza Art festivel so there are a lot of gallery openings. The work is....at best okay. The food is better.
This is the New Museum in downtown, it had an opening as well but to our surprise it was more of a design expo so we were a little disappointed.
A kite in Ditan Park.
Look close at this. See the eye....Heike's friend from Denmark almost bit into this one. Its a chicken head and it is in the platter amongst all the other chicken bits. It is really hard to distinguish what is what. After the head discovery I stopped eating it.
This is from a trip out west from the city I took with Denise's daughter Cecelia. Basically all there was to do in the town was eat lunch...we both thought this chicken was a little too fresh for the eating.
Here is the town. It took us about three to four hours to get out here, via all means of transportation. We made it though. The town is REALLY REALLY small. There is one main street and one little path up above the town. All the other paths basically extend for about 2 feet until they turn into another house serving lunch. You can walk both main paths in under 20 minutes. There aren't any trails that go off into the mountains and you can't really hike anywhere as the mountains are all crumbling rock....soo Cecelia and I ate lunch and then paced back and forth over the two roads for about and hour and decided it was time to take that four hour bus ride back.
Here is a sign in the town proclaiming "Flower Fairy Pond" except the word POND is printed upside down. Not to mention there is NO POND!!! There is NOTHING!
This was one of my favorites. The town decided to beautify themselves by hanging fake leaves from all of its trees. Except all the fake leaves were really worn out.Look close at this and you'll see the leaves are attached to branched that are kind of just stuck into the tree. As Elizabeth syas, "A for effort F for class!"
This is what the top most path leads to, a nice over look of the city.
This is Cecelia with her camera (she is a photographer).
Working on a cutting in my studio
Working on another cutting.
A cutting I am still working on.
My studio.
Still my studio.
These are the last shots of my studio as I am moving out today and into Denise's studio.
This is Chaunce's tail...Chaunce is my rat....he is making a tunnel.
This is Chaunce backing his way out of the electrical box after hearing me coming.
This is Chaunce running away headed up the pipe and upstairs under the guest bed....Below is Chaunce under my kitchen range....
Chauncey in stuffed form given to me by Heike.
The place where I take my Mandarin lessons.