These students with their blue jeans and white T-shirts reminded me of the '50s days back in the U.S.
A Chinese picnic table with five seats.
Chinese workman sweeping the highway. There were also automated street sweepers that had
four of these brooms tied together on a little truck.
Statue of Chinese tortoise
Statue of Communist workers outside of Mao Tse Tung's tomb in Tian'anmen Square.
Here is a picture of me in a Beijing department store
with the Friendlies, the mascots for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Here is a sign at the zoo.
Throne at the Forbidden Palace.
Here, a woman gives the hot dog a sip of water out of a cup.
Goatherd driving his goats down the road.
The Great Wall of China. I am told that the crowds at the Great Wall are normally quite large, but,
it was drizzling on and off the day I went, so I and one American woman were the only tourists there
that day. This picture was taken by the lone souvenir salesman at the wall that day.
The Great Wall of China in the mist.
Holland section of the Tianjin Water Park
KFC shuttle in Beijing.
One day, we heard this man play is string instrument as the woman sang.
You can also see and hear
the music video.
Musical instrument in Palace Museum (Forbidden City)
Beijing train station
Here are the locked-up red pandas that I had to take a picture of through a high window
above a locked door. I don't ever recall hearing of red pandas before. They are a
bit smaller than the black & white pandas.
Chickens walking about on the brick sidewalk.
Butcher selling his meats on the sidewalk.
This fellow uses his three-wheeled cart to haul timber.
Tian'anmen, the gate to the Forbidden Palace in Beijing.
The sign for Tian'anmen.
Culture Street market in Tianjin. I never went there, just
went past it in a taxi.
Here is the façade to the Tianjin Peace Institute for Global Language Studies.
Singing in my cowboy hat
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