Tour de France

Back to 2016, Tour de France went past here. It was really a different world.

July 2016.

Homegrown flowers

Hoya carnosa

Phalaenopsis hybride

Phalaenopsis Liodoro

Epidendrum secundum

May 2021.

Family

No, I do not feel comfortable to talk about my family.

I’m getting older, things become easier.

I was 3 and an half

brother mum dad and me (1984)

The generation of my parents in China didn’t have an easy life: IIWW/Civil War in their young age, then the political movements one after another, a lot of fear and worry. 1980s was a good decade for them, the country just come out of 10 years cultural revolution, people felt much lighter …

mum at home in Guangzhou (2005), I was with her, dad was passed away few years before

What she worn was my shirt which I didn’t take with me when I left home, it surprised me so much, because she never really appreciated my style.

grandma, picture I took when I spent the chinese new year with her at 1982

She’s tiny, amazing, had 4 boys and 5 girls, mum was her 6th child. I think I got on better with her than mum.

Today the older generation is gone, many good souvenirs left.

Pont de Segré

An old railway bridge, become a bridge for pedestrians and cyclists.

April 2021.

Flowers

wisteria

white wisteria, bloom later than the purple one

don’t know the name, come from a tree, will go back later to check what they become

japanese maple, the leaves are more attractive than the flowers

April 2021.

Muguet

They are in bloom for the first time since I have had them 3 years ago. A ladybird come to visit today.

April 2021.