Smell the fragrance of West Lake Spring despite face masks. With Covid-19 virus under control, people in the city of Hangzhou are coming out for the fresh spring. It was a fine day in Hangzhou yesterday. Hangzhou is my home town, about 3 hours’ drive south of Shanghai. The West Lake is crowded with tourists,…
Today, I saw an intermediate egret in the creek in our community, Fuyang, Hangzhou (my hometown), China. It is rare to see intermediate egrets in Hangzhou. Most the egrets found in Hangzhou are little egrets. There are 13 species of egrets all over the world, which four of them are common in China: Great Egret, Intermediate Egret, little…
A tree of white flowers like the flying snow.There are many cherry plum trees in my community in front of or behind the houses, and on the roadsideas well. The cherry plum trees are in full bloom, resembling a beautiful scenery line, which makes people can’t help but stop and appreciate the light fragrant flowers. A tree of…
Only “idle people” go to see flowers. In the afternoon, I passed the two crabapple trees on the side of the road. The crabapple flowers are in full bloom. From time to time, passers-by stop to look up at the flowers. Flowers, useless and beautiful. “Every day busy, all day long, never walk in the…
In the evening, a Chinese bulbul was found eating flower petals in the bushes in the distance. I leaned against a big tree and snapped the moment with my 100-400mm long-lense when the light-vented bulbul was eating the flower petals. It’s a little far away, and the sharpness of my pictures is greatly reduced after…
It is still early spring here in Mid-February in my hometown – Hangzhou, China. I live in a community compound known as Shanglinhu, largely situated on a hillslope in the memerizing Fuyang District, west of Hangzhou. This afternoon, I spot several collared finchbills singing and dancing in a tree about 2 meters high. Collared…
The COVID-19 or the novel coronavirus silences China in many ways – from working, studying, trading, entertaining and more in all aspects of life. I happened to be in my hometown – Hangzhou for the Chinese lunar new year 2020 when the virus broke out. In a slight effort to contain the pathogen, I and…
Plan your Hangzhou tour? Hangzhou is a garden city well known for its local specialities of Silk and Green Tea. Hangzhou’s green tea is sectioned into three kinds: Spring Tea, Summer Tea and Autumn Tea. Spring tea is supposed to be the best of the three in terms of color and aroma. The green tea…