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  An exquisite gate I saw in Xi'an years ago is my contribution to Thursday Doors. To see more doors, click here .

 

  Beijing My entry for this week's Monday Murals, which Sami of Colourful World gradiously hosts is a China Dream mural. To see more murals, click here . 

  Jinan, China Thursday Doors, a weekly feature allowing door lovers to come together to admire and share their favorite door photos from around the world. Feel free to join in on the fun by creating your own Thursday Doors post each week and then sharing your link at No Facilities anytime between 12:01 am Thursday morning and Saturday noon (North American eastern time). Click here to see more marvelous doors.

  My contribution to Sami's Mural Monday is this mural on a cave wall at 1000 Buddha Mountain in Jinan, China. If you want to see more murals, click here . You'll be glad you did.

  Luoyang, China Hosted by Dan of No Facilities,  Thursday Doors, a weekly feature allowing door lovers to come together to admire and share their favorite door photos from around the world. Feel free to join in on the fun by creating your own Thursday Doors post each week and then sharing your link in the comments below, anytime between 12:01 am Thursday morning and Saturday noon (North American eastern time). Click here to see more doors, click here . 

  Hosted by Colorful World, Monday Murals challenges bloggers to share photos with murals. This week I'm sharing one from Jinan, China featuring two favorite Chinese cartoon characters. If you'd like to see more murals, click here . 

  My post for Alive and Trekking's Which Way Photo Challenge is a stone path in Zhujiayu. To see more ways from around the world, click here . 

Thursday Doors is a weekly blogging challenge allowing door lovers to come together to admire and share their favorite door photos from around the world. Feel free to join in on the fun by creating your own Thursday Doors post each week and then sharing it, between Thursday morning and Saturday noon (North American Eastern Time). To get to the hub where you'll find links to dozens of doors, click here .

 A Photo a Week Challenge Inspired by other photo bloggers, I thought I'd try Nancy Merrill's Photo a Week Challenge. This week's prompt is Multiple Shapes.   I've chosen this display of jade jewelry. To see more shapes, click here . 

  Lijiang, Yunnan, China Hosted by Alive and Trekking, the weekly Which Way Challenge inspires bloggers to share photos of ways including:   Roads:  gravel, asphalt, cobbled, dirt, freeway, expressway, highway, bridges Indoor walkways:  hallways, aisles, people movers Outdoor walks:  sidewalks, paths, trails Stairs, elevators, escalators, or steps Railway tracks, monorails, ski lifts Runways and tarmacs Ferries, canals and locks Parking lots, private driveways Tunnels Signs of any kind:  directional, informational, store signs, wind vanes Maps that are posted as signs

  I thought they were bad, but the floods in China are far worse than I thought. Laowhy86 explains why in this short video.

  Near Shanghai Hosted by Alive and Trekking, the weekly Which Way Challenge inspires bloggers to share photos of ways including:  Roads:  gravel, asphalt, cobbled, dirt, freeway, expressway, highway, bridges Indoor walkways:  hallways, aisles, people movers Outdoor walks:  sidewalks, paths, trails Stairs, elevators, escalators, or steps Railway tracks, monorails, ski lifts Runways and tarmacs Ferries, canals and locks Parking lots, private driveways Tunnels Signs of any kind:  directional, informational, store signs, wind vanes Maps that are posted as signs