Friday Flower Blogging (a bit late)

Lotus Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, July 2006

There was a big array of potted lotus plants outside the gate of the Institute, where the meeting was taking place.

It's actually quite late Saturday evening here, but only morning in Tucson. I'd have done it this morning, but I ran out of internet and battery before I got to it.

Saturday (last day in Beijing)

I went into downtown Beijing last night with a couple of colleagues, and had dinner and a stroll by the lake -- very pleasant.

The meeting wrapped up, as far as I was concerned, at about noon, and I spent the afternoon wandering around the Temple of Heaven with a colleague. It's under heavy renovation, and the main tower is so freshly spiffed-up that it still smells of new paint, and looked absolutely gorgeous in the late-afternoon light.

Tomorrow I have a plane at noon, and should be home by teatime Tucson time. Whereupon I have enormous quantities of laundry to do, and about 600 photos to tag, but I suspect I'll go to bed and worry about that next weekend.