Jul 23 2008

Good morning Beijing!

Arrived in Beijing last night, jetlagged.  Woke up at about 3:30am.  Took this photo at 6:30, about an hour and a half after dawn.  (Read Ernest Hemingway while flying over Siberia, and strange things begin to happen to the number of clauses you’ll allow in a sentence.)

Beijing, morning, July 24, 2008

Good morning Beijing

As the sun rises, the gray just gets brighter.  It may be out later, as
it was when I arrived around sunset yesterday, a round and a sort of
desaturated yellow-orange, but with no power to change the permanent gray of the sky.

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