With Twelfth Night behind us I think its time to resume blogging. For the last two year's I've attempted and been mostly successful at posting a photo a day. I'm not sure I can maintain that pace – we'll see. Over the course of this year I want to evolve the blog and offer more than just my photos and the occasional review. My ideas at this point are still fairly sketchy but I expect them to come more into focus over the next few weeks.
My last post was on December 28, 2013. I was fighting a failing video card in my computer that bested me later that night. While I had received and installed a warranty replacement by mid-afternoon on the 31st, I'd already embarked on a large scale purge of my office. I decided to complete the purge before posting again.
Continuing with scanned photos from my China trip in 1991, I present ‘Punting on the li river'. There's no outboard (or inboard) on this vessel, just the lady with her pole. If there's a man in the image, he's inside the boat, steering. It does have a tiller after all.
Laden with sand, shoved inside the vessel are a couple of baskets on yokes used to cart items onto and off the boat. What I can't figure out, and maybe you can, is what the two poles with the crescent-shaped ends laid over the bow of the boat are for.
