a roadside temple
we have kryptonite here, too.
it's winter? really?
rice fields and palm trees
a really big house...
... with a werewolf on the front step??
we really wanted to go to the Happy Box, but we couldn't find it!
this is where we stayed, at an apartment owned by the orphanage.
our backyard!
the apartment, and our car!
view from the porch
empty firecracker boxes in a garden, Chinese New Year Day
a nice house; I guess a lot of wealthy people retire here or have a "country home" in Ilan.
ahh... the "main street" of the small town where we stayed. it was blissfully empty and quiet! so different from where i live. in the distance, up on the mountain, is the largest Taoist temple in Taiwan.
an abandoned shack full of napping dogs
walking around the lake on a warm rainy afternoon
all good mountain paths should have mushrooms for resting under.
helen and i climbed the mountain in the rain and made it to the temple. it was really busy (like churches are at Christmastime) with a lot of families coming to pray for a good Year of the Ox.
a small building on the mountain path... with outdoor bathrooms, apparently! :)
more outdoor toilets... in someone's yard. maybe an attempt at reusing and recycling? and landscaping?
hey, they make good planters!
Chinese New Year's Eve... the older kids at the orphanage celebrating with sparklers and fireworks.
