Picture Tour- Around Nanjing

Here are some pictures of recent happenings in Nanjing. I’ve been up and down with a bug and Ian has been traveling with the team the past week, hence our lack of recent blogging. He returned from a trip last night, was home for 4 hours, when he got the dreadful call that he has to pack his bag and leave again the next day. So, 22 hours after we were joyfully reunited he sadly was off for more pre-season basketball shenanigans, mostly likely until the 4-month season begins. T.I.C.

my favorite street vendor- sweet potatoes! (& a lady giving me the stink-eye)

neighborhood cat & her kittens (there are 7)

mama cat & kitten

firecracker aftermath on the sidewalk

the solution for a fallen curtain rod

Jiming Temple- located in northeastern Nanjing, the existing temple was built during the Ming Dynasty

Jiming Temple

Buddha painting lessons

talented kids & a subway mural

Jiming Temple, overlooking the city and mountains

incense offerings

view from the Jiming Temple- a section of the Ming City Wall (Taicheng) & downtown skyline

Jiming Temple & 50 chanting female monks (you can see some inside the left windows)

China's ferocious beasts

glazed fruit-on-a-stick, anyone?

Hunan Lu (Hunan St.) & split-pants baby in action

dumpling assembly line

new favorite restaurant with the neighbors- traditional Najingese food

feast: duck dumplings (jiaozi) & pork dumplings, Chinese spinach & reed vegetable (probably from the canal), pot of sweet & spicy chicken, stinky tofu (literally stinky), onion, pork & spinach crispy pancakes