Winter

London - Richmond Park, Ham Gate

A look at some of the buildings in Shougang Park (首钢园)

A view of the slopes at Thaiwoo.

Our eldest preparing to ski down from the hotel on our first day.

The year of the Rabbit is almost over.

Beijing is gloriously sunny these days.

Bikes parked outside the exit of a subway station.

Half moon today. Half new or half old?

The last light of the day.

Looking out from the kitchen window.

The view from the noorthwest corner.

A view from the bus as we headed west.

Sheets of snow being removed on the back of a tricycle.

The view from the noorthwest corner.

冰糖葫芦 for sale.

One of the buildings in the Impreial Garden.

I'm glad that work to clear the snow hasn't completed. It was nice to see parts of the City still blanketed in white.

It always amazes me how many cars are here. You'd never know there was a vast underground carpark that was also full.

Heading out into the compound, still covered in snow.

Looking towards the Circular Mound with the sun low in the sky.

Looking away from the Circular Mound it felt like you had the place to yourself.

A view inside the echo wall

A view down a main walkway inside the west gate of the Temple of Heaven.

Beijing, Winter '23

The remains of an outdoor swimming pool, unused since the opening of a new sports facility, bring back memories of summers in Beijing.

Giant rotating scrubbing brushes pushed back and forth along the pavements help keep them free of snow and ice.

The work to clear ice and snow from the roads is never ending. As cars wait at the red lights, workers rush out to try and clear more of the ice off the roads in front of them.

Beijing is cold. The current. This bike rack is usually a haphasard collection of diskaredbikes. Today they were arranged in a line, untouched. The cold weather has kept people indoors.

Church of the Good Shepherd, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand - 2003