this past Sunday was the Lantern Festival (元宵节 Yuánxiāojié), officially ending the 15 day celebration of the Lunar New Year.
three major traditions around here include hanging lanterns, eating tangyuan (汤圆), and setting off firecrackers. i managed to capture 2 of those 3.
for weeks, the city and neighborhoods have been adorned with red lanterns hanging along...
Category Archives: life
lantern festival festivities | jiaxing china photographer
hello 2010
just a simple picture (nothing fancy, but it made me smile) to get this blog going again. any good caption suggestions?
random things to note:
matching jogging suits courtesy of grandma – i think that finding coordinating outfits is one of those joys of having two kids now.
photo taken during our recent trip back to michigan –...
in search of fall | jiaxing china photographer
When september/october came around this year, one thing i missed was the fall weather of Michigan and Boston. Cool, crisp air; tons of colors and falling leaves, cider and donuts, apple-picking, mittens and scarves, kicking-through-fallen-crunchy-leaves-weather. Fall time here is generally warmer and greener, but driving around the city these past couple weeks, i was excited...
feasting | a jiaxing thanksgiving
it’s been a week now since Thanksgiving, and I just finished the last of the leftover turkey soup today. one of the highlights of our new apartment here in Jiaxing is that it has a BUILT-IN OVEN. this is a rare commodity in China, as I have commented on before.
with a full-size oven, i was...
family outing | jiaxing photographer
had a nice quiet weekend that gave a sense of “normalcy” that we feel like we’ve been missing for a while. hannah was in need of some new shoes, so we went shopping… and ended up getting a little something for all the girls. =)
we’ve done minimal clothing shopping for any of us while living...
grown up | jiaxing photographer
somewhere along the way, in between moving around and having a second baby, my first baby seems to have transformed into a grown up little girl without warning me. we were on our way out the door one day and i glanced at her and thought she looked so grown up and wondered when did...
moving on | jiaxing china photographer
hello? anybody still checking this blog? sorry for the loooong silence. amongst other things, we’ve had our hands full packing and unpacking…
(and trying not to lose kaylah among the boxes)
and now we’ve moved to our new home in jiaxing – arriving here *exactly* a year from the date we arrived in ningbo. that totals to...
mid-autumn festival | ningbo photographer
today is the mid-autumn festival, also called moon festival, or 中秋節 (zhongqiu jie) for you Chinese readers. it’s another big holiday in this part of the world.
a couple things you should do today to celebrate:
1) eat mooncake
for several weeks now, the supermarkets have been filled with tons of varying gift boxes containing mooncake, and everyone...
60
today is China’s National Day, marking the 60th anniversary of the PRC.
there have been a lot more flags waving around and decorations leading up to this (we saw a big topiary “60″ carving). it’s been raining all day, so our view of any festivities or celebrations basically looked like this:
watching the parade in Beijing from...