River Sunset

River Sunset
Originally uploaded by paulbrockmann.

The rivers bring floods but of course they also bring water for all

the necessities of life, and can add a good deal of beauty to the

landscape. Though the team worked long and hard days on this

distribution, there was usually time (even if only in the truck coming

home) to appreciate the beauty.

Following are another shot of a river sunset, then one of the guys who

worked assembling the wheelbarrows, and unloading with me. This was

supposed to show up later in a cluster on the wheelbarrows, but it got

rejected so I’m re-posting it…and this process is too time-consuming

for me to delete and repost everything in between. 🙂

After that you’ll see one of a Miao house (the Miao are one of

the ethnic minorities that live in Guangxi, with different language

and customs from the Han Chinese — they’re not strongly represented

in this area, but apparently this house serves as a restaurant), and

one of kids playing early-morning badminton at the compound where we

were housed for the duration of the project. The project lasted

slightly more than two weeks, serving something like 12 villages and

towns.