Posts by Chris Waugh
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Capture: Two Tripods, One Night, in reply to Nora Leggs,
for special occasions…? only for best…?
No, for all the tea in china, but not just in China. I could offer up a mug so stained with Dragon Well tea I could save myself a lot of money by not bothering to buy tea leaves. Any hot water put in will come out as lift-the-roof-off-your-mouth strong Dragon Well. And that ain't even purple clay.
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An odd ersatz North American township has sprung up at the entrance to the gully.
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古崖居/Guyaju. Ancient cave homes carved into the sides of a steep, narrow gully just a few km further northwest of our village.
The home of the chief of the Xi tribe. Or so the sign said.
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Capture: Two Tripods, One Night, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Thanks. A China post would probably be the only thread on which I could stay on topic.
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Capture: Two Tripods, One Night, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
… And then I read about the flooding in Beijing.
Ha, yeah. We drove up Saturday afternoon to try and beat that storm, guess what we drove straight into. Fun. Made for beautiful, clear, cool weather yesterday, though, and that's continuing, at least out here. I'm sure Beijing is smogging up much faster, though.
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Capture: Two Tripods, One Night, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
The 'pyramids' are the roof over the forecourt of a closed-down petrol station. Sinopec dominates out here, and many others have tried, but failed to compete.
The solar panels in the background of the eagle photo aren't PV, but the water heaters of our village's solar bathhouse. There's plenty of solar water heating, but PV I see is mostly small panels on road and rail lights, signs and signals.
This tower is, I believe, going to be a solar power tower. On hazy days I've seen beams of light focussing where the top of the tower will be. Not sure if they're going to boil water to run a steam turbine or create some kind of chimney effect. You can see the tower slightly to the left of centre in the second photo - probably need to zoom in. Below and slightly to the left of the highest peak in the picture. I haven't managed to get close enough at the right angle to make out the writing on its northern side - I'm not as familiar with that part of the county, and it's not often I get free time to explore around here, but I'm going to be here a week, so maybe in the next few days I'll try for a better look.
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Daying can keep its totem poles. We've got a rock.
And an eagle.
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Village temple, this one's for Guandi. Built, according to the plaque, at the end of the Qing Dynasty (but no specific year is given, so sometime before 1912), repaired in 2007, since then locked up and left to crumble. I had a peak inside and Guandi still sits there with companions and guardians at his side. My father in law saw this and reminded me there's another temple in the village, but that two other temples were torn down in about 1998.
And the village opera stage, with a touring Bangzi troupe from Baoding.
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Our village, Jundushan in the distance. See the reservoir? All the maps say it's there... Just a puddle now, somewhere beyond the windfarm you can see if you look close or squint or zoom in or something.
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The end of the river. You can kind of see bits of the dam that holds it back, so the tourists get to pretend the Guishui River is in fine health. Except the cycle tourists, who follow the signs and get to the Guanting Bridge, that one in the background, and get to see our dirty little secret. We hold the river back in the county town, while the water level in the Guanting Reservoir is so low that it has lots of grass and quite tall trees, like those ones there under the bridge.
