New Links
Greg’s Album: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gregory/
Flora’s blog: http://purplelovepeace.spaces.live.com/
New Dunhuang - interesting developments
I researched the Silk Road trip for clients. Came across several interesting news for the new development for Mogao Grotto Fresco .
(1) Digitizing 1600 year old Dunhuang Frescoes.
(2) New Dunhuang: http://www.newdunhuang.com. This project encourage new artist to come and paint murals in new caves, they will be free to visitors. I really like the ideas. They displayed photos for a few caves newly created.
Other links:
Juicy Cherry in Wanatchee
Luke and Jason led us to a orchard in Wenatchee where local residents Randy and Susan maintain 53 cherry trees in their backyard. There are 50 Rainier cherries and 3 Bing cherries. The trees have grown for 23 years. The annual harvest is 3500-4500 lbs. Randy and Susan have been taken care of the orchard for eighteen years.
They told us the interesting stories about Bing and Rainier cherries: Rainier cherry tree was first cultivated to use for cross pollination for Bing cherries. Then people fell in love with the Rainier cherries. So, in Randy and Susie’s orchard, the 3 Bing cherry trees are used for pollination.
We had a large group that consists of three generations, little chubby Skyler is already 26 lbs at 7.5 months, he weighs half the cherries their family picked. Little KeKe is 3 months old. She was very coorperative throughout the trip.
It was hot day, very hot. We had a good time in the shades of dense foliages though.
Rainy Rainier : VIP Visitors from Beijing
6/21 Hiking Team: FangFang and Mom, Angus, Haidong, Eileen and Kevin, Bing and Lisa
=> More trip photos from Lisa and Bing’s album
Today, we went to Mt Rainier for hiking. The weather was cloudy and rainy. The rain timed itself perfectly, start pouring right after we finished lunch at Jackson Visitor Center. The roaring water fall was the highlight of the trip. We had fun in the rain and shared stories along the way !
Fangfang’s Mom brought new hiking poles for us from Beijing. They are very fancy and shock absorbing !
We have 5 pairs of brand new shoes on the trail: Kevin and Eileen, Lisa and Bing, Fangfang’s Mom. Break them in on the trail together. They worked well on the snow, our feet stayed dry.
Haidong just arrived yesterday from Beijing via HaiNan airline, he hiked in good spirit in Bing’s old hiking boots with Lisa’s extra pair socks. Angus had shorts and T-shirt, he was expecting a summery hike and insisted we stay within 5 minutes of our car if we hike.
Dinner at Shanghai Cafe in Factoria won good remarks from our Beijing visitors 
Great choice ！ Sun started to shine after dinner. We had a brief ’sunny rain’ （太阳雨） on the way home.
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