After five weeks in the USA I am back to my home in Guiyang.  It’s still here and it looks like things are good for the coming year.  I immediately turned on the English CCTV News upon my return.  I was relieved to discover that everything is good still in China.  There are no scandals of significance and although there are problems, there seems to be nothing that the government isn’t up to handling. The news is very different than in the US.

My plants have prospered in my absence. The weather is about 64 degrees.  The taxi driver said that the weather was in the middle 70’s earlier today.  In Shanghai it was about 96 or 97.Even though we are much further south, the mountains and prevailing winds help Guiyang stay comfortable in the summer.