Hello. I am e.n.d. Once upon a time I came from Minnesota. But then I moved everywhere.
Curiosity didn't kill the cat. Complacency did.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Leaving China tonight and heading back to Berlin. Two weeks left…
Some Karst for the road.
Karst landscape at dusk.
The view from my boat ride home on the Li River earlier today.
With the sounds of this classic Jesus and Mary Chain album in my ears.
Made it to Yangshuo. Four flights and a long car ride, I finally arrived at my parents place.
The photos are of my near miss of a connection in Shenzhen. Driven personally across the tarmac by a couple of guys who saw me roaming around the airport until they finally asked, “Where you go, woman? You lost. You will miss your flight. Run with us.”
I’m in my pajamas. My Mom and I are listening to Nathan Fake now and I’m about to collapse.
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Looking forward to renting bikes with my Dad and getting lost somewhere near here.
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Karst scenery near Yangshuo.
I like when my Dad adds a brief caption, like below.
I want to finally see this for myself.
I keep saying that.
I just need to buy the damn ticket already.
In rural China, women do a lot of the heavy work, though the men certainly work hard as well. It’s true that in parts of China you do see machines to help with the field work, including harvest, but that’s the exception rather than the rule. Here in Guangxi, nearly all the work in the fields is done by hand. For certain tasks, like plowing a flooded rice field, a simple plow may be pulled by a water buffalo, but beyond that, human labor is still the way food is grown. With young people increasingly leaving their villages for jobs in distant cities, it places more and more of the labor burden on their parents and grandparents. Life these days in rural China is far from idyllic, if it ever was.
Another photo from my Dad.
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Five girls & one boy. Country elementary school. Rural Yangshuo County, China.
Somewhat near where my parents currently live.
Taken by my Dad.
Picturing him right now, hauling his camera all around these parts.
The lighting makes me think this was taken at dusk…
Beautiful.
Harvesting and threshing rice.
Rural Yangshuo, China.
Yangshuo, China. This is where my parents are moving in July. Whoa.
Click away to see more of my Dad’s photos. He’s launching a photo-tour company there and will be posting more once he’s on the ground.
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