Activities in Beijing

You can buy a watermelon off this truck as it drives to its destination. It sure looks tempting.

As soon as a sale is made, the vendor will rearrange the produce to make it look appealing.

The early morning haze adds to the dust in the air to make an ordinary side street seem mysterious and beckoning. In another hour this street will team with vendors and shoppers buying the vegetables for the day.

Fruit never looks this tempting at home, partly because this is so fresh and partly because there is nothing like natural light to bring out color.

Grandmothers often have the care of young children because, as in the U.S., both parents work.

An impromptu restaurant set up in an empty lot lets people stop on their way to work for breakfast.

Hand scales are used to weigh produce.

Cai Zunan and his wife and daughter fixed us a feast in their apartment. It was a wonderful dinner. All three spent time at the University of Maine at Farmington as part of the exchange program.

Judy, Fred, Denise and Kay get ready to wield the brushes and try their hand at calligraphy.