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Dancing Light Any Time

I run in the mornings so I like when we fall back to Daylight Real Time. But many people workout in the evening, or get home in the dark now.

Dancing Light Personal Lights help you be seen and light your way home in living color.

Safety when exercising, showing lights in use
Being seen is being safe. Do it in style! With Dancing Light Personal LIghting
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Personal LightStrips from Dancing Light Array

Being seen, is being safe.

 Your own festival of lights, keeping you safe and sound!

Dancing Light Personal LightStips Safety with style, with fun, with piece of mind. The lightstrip can shine in solid primary colors or stream in innumerable patterns of light.

Dancing Light Personal Lightstips can be easily attached to children’s backpacks, their bikes, helmets, let your imagination be your guide. Or, you could attach one to your handbag when you go out at night. Your bag will shine with jewel like LEDs, to light your way.

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City Sidewalks

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Shaded Nanjing Street

When I first came to Nanjing, one of the things that struck me was how nice the sidewalks were.  They were wide, lined with large Platanus (Xuánlíng) trees and paved with green and yellow cement tiles.  The Platanus trees are related to the Sycamore tree in the US and the Plane tree in Europe.  The branches of these white trunk trees reaching out over the street can provide a calming, gentile feeling to a bustling city.

I was told by a friend that a “women could walk from one side of Nanjing to the other without a parasol”. Once a new mayor in Nanjing started cutting down these stately trees, to “modernize” the city.  He upset everyone so much, he had to find a new job.

Tree Lined Streets in Nanjing Suburb

Unfortunately some of these trees were removed and transplanted to make way for the construction of a metro line to the suburbs.  They were replanted, after the subway was built.

Hopefully they can reestablish themselves.  This was a lot of extra effort, but I think it says something about how much the city values its trees.  They were looking good when I left.Patterned Sidewalk

The sidewalk tiles are another story.  These green squares are about 30 cm (about one foot) in width and have a repeating geometric pattern on them.  In the middle of the sidewalk is a yellow line of tiles with raise ovals on them, which provide a guiding right-of-way for the blind.

In many places these green pathways are being replaced by sturdier grey bricks, with a red blind right-of-way, which isn’t as colorful or decorative in my opinion as the green tile.  But one nice thing about the tiles being replaced is that some of the out lying areas in Nanjing are reusing the green and yellow tiles.  Giving the tiles new life.Recycled tile sidewalk patterns, makes walking a simple pleasure.

Pebbled Sidewalk Around a Hospital

The “new” sidewalks that are created with the recycled tiles can be interesting to follow.  When these tiles are placed together they make up a larger pattern.  Plus since some of the tiles were broken, this repeating pattern can change to create new patterns.

When the blind right-of-way tiles are added it can make for a very colorful and interesting sidewalk.  Which makes walking to and from the bus a little more enjoyable.

More walkways to come.

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Pecking At Our Mirror Image

The other day I heard a tapping coming the garden   in my courtyard. It was a wren defending its territory from its mirror image.

I had placed to mirror there to direct more sunlight to some plants. But as soon as my resident wrens saw the “other” birds in the mirror they started defending their territory.  They were so intent on doing this I was able to get within a yard or two of them.

The odd thing was, even though I should have been perceived as the bigger threat the birds completely ignored me.