This post is a mixture of photographs taken with the Nikon DSLR and an iPhone 6S… I’m really enjoying walking the streets of Wuhan, especially the back alleys where the little markets and shops are. I needed a button replaced on one of the few dress shirts I brought with me, so I wandered into a tiny little dress shop with a manual sewing machine in the door. The tailor, a woman who was watching a movie or something on a PC laptop, happily sewed a new button while I waited… I pushed myself to make a little more interpersonal contact, something I wish came easier but I don’t have anything more than the most perfunctory Chinese vocabulary, and as I was told would be the case, outside of the universities not many people have any reason to bother with English. So there is a lot of smiling, nodding, non-verbal communication, and for the most part it’s working out pretty well so far….