same shots, daytime

It is such a perfect, gorgeous day here, I had to go to the roof top to record the blue skies and same shots from last night. This is looking east toward the Bund. Through the bamboo scaffolding is our landmark Pearl TV tower, although it is so unfair of me to keep mentioning it because I don't think it actually shows up in the photos. Sorry.
The view to the north, same as last night. I sat up on the deck taking in the warm sun and watching Shanghai get started on its day (although in actuality, Shanghai getting started begins at about 6 a.m. This was at the late hour of 7:30 after the girls had boarded their bus.). I sat and watched the workers scrambling around on the bamboo scaffolding, painting, replacing roof tiles, a woman coming out to her window to apply make-up, a man hanging his 3 white shirts out his window, another woman putting out her wash, a woman in her outside kitchen sink working away, kittens running from one garden to another through holes in the gates (wild kittens not to be fooled with), workers mixing concrete on the lane outside our door with a shovel, people off to work on bike or walking, others returning from their morning market shop, the roar of far away traffic, flocks of white birds flying overhead, birds singing in the garden below. Glorious.

Maybe it's too difficult to see, but this bamboo scaffolding is able to bend and reach out toward the opposing building to create a platform that the workers use to pulley up their cans of paint and other essential items.

My Chinese tutor is due over soon, and I think today's lesson will be on the rooftop! Yahoo!