Morning walk, crabs and flowers.

I was out for my daily morning walk, and met something curious in the staircase. A crab. And not only one, but three. They didn't look like they had been dropped or thrown away (they were untouched so not just leftovers from a meal...) They actually looked exactly like they had succeeded in escaping the pot, and met their death in the dry staircase. If you haven't seen our staircase, you would think crabs escaping to the staircase impossible. But several of our neighbors use the staircase as an extra storage place, especially for food. Once they even kept live fish in water in a styrofoam box.

One of the three crabs I met this morning in our staircase.

Fafa-dagis, or the 'grandfather-club'. They have taken their boardgames outdoors now when the weather is nice. You see them all over the city playing cards, mahjong or this game, which is a chess-like game.

The local market on the street just below our house. I often buy fresh vegetables from this lady.

Veggies coming strait from the farm, so they are much fresher that veggies in the supermarket.

Mussels for sale straight out of the wagon.

Thats the city-hall in the background.

A lake in the middle of Rizhao which is my usual goal on my walks. There they have nice walks and benches to sit down on with enough distance to the roads that you can 'breath free' for awhile... Today it was totally calm, a nice change from some really windy days lately!

Colourful.

Soon it will be more green everywhere, but the first flowers are like a breath of fresh air after the brown and dusty winter.

 ;-)