In China there is an annual celebration of the moon, aptly called Moon Festival. There is a beautiful legend linked to this festival, and it is an occasion to get together with friends and family to watch the moon in its fullest glory. We happily join in with the latter, which over the years has resulted in quite a few moon photos. According to the news, this year's moon was the roundest in quite some time.
Every year in January or February, when the plum trees blossom, the air at the E&D Farm is filled with the twittering of little Japanese white-eyes. They stay just as long as the flowers bloom before the flocks move on, but while they are there, their chirping and bustling around in the trees is a joy to watch.
When looking for this week's photo, my husband remarked that there hadn't been many coffee related photos so far, so off I went looking for one. They turned out to be few and far between. This week's photo comes close: it was taken at the E&D Farm near Jinghong, though I apparently was more intrigued by the sunrise than I was by the seedlings under the black canvas at the bottom of the photo.
For the past five years the rainy season in Kunming wasn't really worth its name, but this years the rains have been on time and abundant. Last Friday it looked like another storm was upon us, but after some rumbling and the slightest bit of rain it blew over and the sun managed to peak from underneath the clouds right before it set behind the hills.
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Whereas I have a passion for coffee, my wife has a passion for photography. Our years abroad have been documented in countless photos. Some of them just snapshots, others with a story behind them. Once a week we pick one we would like to share with you. Archives
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