The Summer Palace, late in the day
Drought in California
I keep hearing about how bad the drought in California — is it as bad as people say? I saw these amazing pictures, taken three years apart.
Daily Photo – The Summer Palace, late in the day
Even though I’ve been to Beijing many times now, I’m often confused as the relative distance of one thing to the next. Here, at the Summer Palace, it turns out is very close to almost all the key stuff along the Central Axis (which is kind of a spiritual line that goes north-south through Beijing. But the first time I came here, it took over a 2 hours, and not just because of lousy Beijing traffic! So, I had this thing in my mind that this place was really super far. I was low on time but decided to try risking coming back again. This time it literally took 5 minutes. I’m still confused by the whole experience!
