Shanghai Spring

Sakura in Zhongshan Park, Shanghai.

Being my first year in Shanghai I am not too sure of the seasons but what I gather is spring is April/May, monsoon season is May/June, a terribly hot summer follows during July/August and a pleasant fall in September/October.  More evidence of a short spring is that all the music festivals are crammed into two - three weekends here at the end of April.  The inclusion of experiencing a Chinese music festival is totally filling up my weekend schedule between baseball practice, basketball (our team made the playoffs), general walking around, walking backward (a popular exercise with China’s elderly), metro rides, and fried dumpling eating.  In spite of all the ballyhoo I was able to walk about and snap some photos of the Shanghai Spring.  Enjoy.

What sakura collection would be complete without some cosplay? Zhongshan Park, Shanghai.

Out comes the sun and dries up all the laundry. With a population the size of Shanghai and the number of environmental/economical conservationists you are going to find laundry all over the place.

Such few laundry on such a nice day is uncommon in these parts.

Arguably China's favorite sport, basketball while wearing jeans, is a fine way to spend a spring day.

More of the same.

Another Chinese past-time, birding.

Probably the world's largest producer and user of kites are the Chinese. Go to any park on the weekend and the sun is basically eclipsed by their numbers.