Before visiting this marketplace,
we spent a morning wandering through the most visited site
in Yunnan, the Stone Forest. Rain prevented me from shooting
good pictures of the bizarre formations of the petrified
mountains of stone. Sami people work as tour guides in the
park and also sell fish, spices, garlic, and vegetables at
this nearby village market.
This woman was patting together
dozens of dumpling wrappers for my favorite Chinese
delicacy, vegetable dumplings.
This vendor dressed in her
traditional garb measured out vegetables carefully.
We saw corn everywhere.
Here we found it spread neatly on the street to dry.
Sami women are known for their
intricate embroidery. In this country courtyard we watched
as a young woman hand-sewed tapestries and table cloths.
Nearby, elderly women in open-air stalls were pulling apart
silk thread by hand.
This mother and her baby live
aboard this passenger/fishing boat on
Erhai Lake. She makes and sells bead bracelets to tourists
on the boat. I bought several
for my grandchildren.
At over 18,000 feet the stunning
snow-covered Jade Dragon Snow Mountain has never been
conquered by man. I couldn't conquer it with a clear
photographic view that day, though I tried. We
ascended the mountain in a chair lift to almost 11,000 feet.
Breathing with difficulty, I hiked slowly through the alpine
fir forest at the mountain-top but couldn't catch a good
glimpse of the snow-capped mountain peak. My best shot
occurred as I rode down the chair lift.
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