Chongqing with Qing and her family (part 7) ....Pear Blossom "countryside"

On a beautiful, warm, spring day, we took a trip to the countryside, to see the blossoming 

Pear Trees:

Qing, who made this whole year in China possible

Our whole group......Qing has 

LOTS and LOTS of  friends!

                                               

                             Melody

                   .......catching tadpoles

Up-close-and-personal with a working Water Buffalo

Click here to see the water buffalo in action.

This is a working farm.....

Click here to see the man carry the buckets of "fertilizer" out toward the newly planted corn seeds.

Click here to see that man distribute the fertilizer to the seeds.

This photo reminds me of one I have of my grandfather hoeing in a garden. 

We had lunch at this street-side cafe, where the nobody thought there was anything unusual about a big electric transformer being perched above the eating and ping-pong tables.

Lunch, for our party of 12.....

We each get a small bowl, a pair of chopsticks, and permission to snag food out of the communal dishes stacked in the center of the table. 

Building sites along the way reminded us of similar sites in Africa and Peru.

There were some big factories, on the way to the countryside.