A trip to Inner Mongolia from one of China's smaller cities where my sister is working

Buddha, Temple and Museum at  Hohut

Datong and its Hanging Monastry

The Grasslands of Inner Mongolia

some pages from my great great grandfathers day book

He was a surveyor in Derbyshire and the book records details of peoples crops,
measurements of fields, steps to a dance, maps of the local area and handy hints like waterproof for shoes and how to make tracing paper

COCKATOOS AND TWO CORELLAS

these birds are all in the local high school grounds each afternoon picking up food scraps .
the groundsman has fruit for them. i cant get close to them as i have the dog with me and she scares them off so all these pics are taken at full 12 optical zoom on my Panasonic TZ7 that i still havnt gotten around to sorting out how to work on other than automatic

count how many birds !!

azaela flowe from my previous house

this azalea is the only one flowering out of numerous plants in the garden of my previous house.
the garden is overgrown now and neglected and that is a pity given all the work i put into it

this is a friends plant...over the road

some south african proteas down the road

this one unfortunately has my arm in it holding it down to get a better pic

of things from a tiny part of China...which is where my sister is for a year

pink and grey....sort of

just using up some oils that i had bits and peices of.
soap is sliced but not trimmed