No trip to China is complete without a trip to a Suzhou garden or two (or three, or four, or... you get where I'm going).
I saw this wonderful piece of machinery reversing down the track and I thought it was getting hitched to the locomotive-less carriages on the platform in front of us.
The expression, 'Say Cheese' is guaranteed to bring you all sorts of forced expressions but rarely a genuine smile. Thankfully, I never learned any form of Chinese so I was unable to ask today's subject to, 'Say Cheese', which now makes me wonder what the Chinese expression for 'Say Cheese' actually is.
Today's photo is of a man waiting in Xi'an. I've no idea what he was waiting for, most likely transport of some sort.
With news today that a London Duck tours DUKW caught fire and sank in the River Thames, I thought I'd post a view from a DUKW that I took a couple of years back.
I don't for a minute think that my photo, 'Mummy's Little Helper' shows child labor in a pottery factory. I think it just shows a work environment where a mother was allowed to bring her child to work in order the keep an eye on her.