Hadley-Ives Summer 2010. Page 4.

Page 4 features photographs from Taiwan.
Summer photographs page 1; page 2; page 3; page 4; page 5; page 6; page 7; page 8; page 9.
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Social workers in their Chiayi County social services offices. Taibao, Chiayi County, Taiwan.
 Arthur tries out the banjo during our stay in the Alred home in Taibao.
 Sebastian sitting in the Alred home's main room.
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Wei-chen sitting with his cousins Arthur and Sebastian in Second Brother's home.
 Sitting down for a bowl of noodles in the little shop next door to the old Peng home on Chi-Min Road in Chiayi. Yi-Fong and Sebastian sit with Guangyin in between.
 Some friends come over to play with little Wei-Wei Arthur and Sebastian are sitting down on the floor. This is in Second Brother's home in Chiayi.
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Here is Eric after hiking up to the top of the slope south of Ershui (at the Shaotian Temple). Having hiked up here, I could have continued on the Songboling Tea Trail.
Arthur holding his cousin Yi-Fong's son, Wei-Wei. We went to the farm in Chiayi County where Third Sister's husband's parents live.
 Deh-Li (Arthur) and Jeri with Wei-Wei on Third Sister's parents-in-law's farm.
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Shih-Chuen (Sebastian) with some Lychees (Litchi chinensis), which grow on the farm. The traditional Taiwan rural home behind him is the residence for Third Sister's parents-in-law.
 Yi-Fong sits with his mom (Second Brother's wife, Jyang Mei-Li) and they are amused by Yi-Fong's son, Wei-Wei.
 Yi-Fong with his son Guangyin, and his American cousins, Shih-Chuen and Deh-Li (Sebastian and Arthur).
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Here I am offering some pudding to my mother-in-law. Chun-Chih (Jeri), Rei-Keh (Eric), Mom, Deh-Li (Arthur), and Shih-Chuen (Sebastian).
Jane Alred stands with us at the nursing home near Lantan in Chiayi.
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Jeri with her mom.
 We visited mom quite a bit while in Chiayi. She recognized us and expressed pleasure in our company.
 Mom with two of her five daughters, Chun-Chih and Chun-Hwei (Third Sister).
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Third Sister comes home as the rain begins to fall in Ershui.
 Third Sister's younger son, Juen-Wei poses with his American Cousins, backlit in a nursery in Tianwei, the horticulture area of Changhua County.
 Third Sister with her older son, Juen-Yi who was about to leave the house to return to his military duties.
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An example of glass handicraft art in the National Center for Traditional Arts in Ilan.
 Theview down Folk Art Boulevard, a sort of hybrid museum gift shop area at the Center for Traditional Arts.
 We noticed some sparkling water drops beaded up with surface tension on leaves in Tianwei.
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I love the light in Ershui, with dark clouds and rainstorms coming out of the mountains to the east and north, but afternoon sun merrily shining from the west through the rain.
 Chunchih (Jeri) in one of the horticulture shops in Tianwei, where Third Sister took us to enjoy plants.
 Third Sister and her husband treated us to a special dinner at a famous fried rice restaurant in Ershui, and we had this view of the heavy rain on Ershui streets from our table.
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Our old neighbors moved back to Taiwan from Saint Louis, but we try to visit them whenever we return to Taiwan. Here are Hubert and Joseph (we knew him as "Little Yao" 10-14 years ago) with Sebastian. We met at the Hsingchu "night" market, which is actually only held during the daytime. Sebastian and Arthur especially like to see their old English-speaking friends in Taiwan such as Joseph and Yao, also the Alred children.
 Engraved stone object made by an artist who lived in the Liangzhu Culture of Southeastern China (a contemporary civilization with ancient Sumer, dating from about 3300 BCE to 2200 BCE). The swirling lines and stylized depictions of creatures and objects remind me of rock art I've seen in African caves and American Petroglyphs. Perhaps realted to similar active ingredients of sacred plants such as Ayahuasca?
 These anthropomorphic bronze knife handles were displayed in the Shihsanhang Museum of Archaeology. These have mysterious origins, although Paiwan people in southern Taiwan have similar objects. The handle on the left has body and head propotions that match entities encountered during shamanistic hallucinogenic "trips" and also beings perceived during "alien abductions" although the nose and mouth are more prominent in this case.
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I loved the forest walk up the hill behind the Wood Carving Museum in Sanyi. Arthur and Jeri during our walk around the streets of Sanyi. The forest trail in Sanyi. It started to rain on us during this hike. It rained quite a bit in Sanyi.
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After walking up the trail in the Songboling Recreation Area in Ershui we came to these stairs leading toward Shoutian Temple. The nearly 2 kilometer-long Songboling Hiking Trail (with an elevation gain of about 250 meters) is a place to see Formosan Macaques and butterflies. The path up the forested slopes out of Ershui was lined in places by flowers and "flocks" of butterflies such as this Great Orangetip Butterfly (Hebomoia glaucippe).
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A statue of a Buddha in Ershui. Lanterns in the Wenchang Temple in the National Center for Traditional Arts in Ilan. A dragon at the Shoutian Temple.
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The scene of the interior of Dong An Temple in Taibao, where Horse Face (Mamian) and Cow Head (Niutou) wait for visitors. A celestial emperor (a saint) gazes out over the temple in Sanyi. Behind him is a dragon with red, glowing eyes. This figures stand on the roof of one of the older and more prominent temples in Ershui.
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Chunchih and Diana look at various preserved fruits in Tamshui after our visit to the Shihsanhang Museum across the river. A very odd advertising mural on the side of a truck. Arthur is popping up on this bouncing slide, and Teddy (in the green shirt) is about to slide down. In the Hsingchu fair (daytime night market) kids get ten or fifteen minutes to play all they like on some inflated bouncy toys, unlike the system in America were kids typically pay a set price for one slide down or just a few minutes in the bouncing area.

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