Friday, December 3, 2010

The Buddhist Shrine

Dear Sophia

Today I went to visit a site I am doing a design for in a city in the south of China called Taizhou. My site is surrounded by mountains and I had the chance to climb up. Part way up one of the mountains is a Buddhist shrine where people stop to pray.



At the very top of the mountain is a Buddhist temple with a funny little dog who kept barking at me, but when I walked towards him he ran inside scared!

Love Jason

Friday, November 19, 2010

Moganshan Lu



In Shanghai next to the Suzhou Creek is a street called Moganshan Lu which is an old district of warehouses. Some of the warehouses have been converted into art galleries and there are all sorts of statues and pieces of art in unexpected places. I quite like this statue of an ancient soldier...without a head!

Love Jason



Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Twycross Zoo visit

Dear Sophia,

I finally managed to get all of the pictures from our trip to Twycross Zoo downloaded from my camera , so I thought it might be fun to put some of them on your blog. It was definitely a fun day out and lucky for us the weather cooperated and the rain did not come until we were on our way home.



I liked this guy a lot. He did not seem bothered at all by all of the visitors. He just hung around and watched everyone going by and posed for pictures



My favourites were definitely the two tortoises. But they could not seem to figure out if they were coming or going!


And I was getting a bit worried that you were going to climb in and help them sort it out. Hopefully they worked it out in the end.


Twycross Zoo is a very well known Primate Centre..so there was obviously lots of monkeys and apes. Luckily this gorilla was not real or else I'm not sure how he would have taken to you sitting on him!!






But this guy definitely was real!


I think on of your favourite things at Twycross Zoo (other than the meerkats and prairie dogs) was the elephants.




And I thought it was especially interesting that these elephants were fro Sri Lanka and that the elephant enclosure was made to look like a bit of the Sri Lank-an habitat.

Love Jason

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Woburn Safari Park slideshow

At Woburn Safari Park

Dear Sophia,

These are some of the pictures I took while we were visiting Woburn Safari Park. Even though the weather was not very good, I think we had lots of fun. I did not get any pictures of the monkey trying to steal your hair clip but I did get lots of pictures of the monkeys playing.



I also quite like this shot of you with the penguins..



and climbing in the Tree Tops!



Love
Jason

Friday, May 7, 2010

Sunday, April 18, 2010