October 2016

POTD: The Sheepherder

POTD: The SheepherderThe Sheepherder
Yinma Farm, China
2016

Browsing material was hard to come by in this area so this sheep herder would walk along the trees and beat the upper branches of the brush and trees to knock off the drier leaves for his sheep to eat.

POTD: Wishful Thinking

POTD: Wishful ThinkingWishful Thinking
Yumen City, China
2016

Traveling across a very flat and desolate section of the Gobi Desert, I had to chuckle when I saw this billboard. It may actually be a sign for an existing resort elsewhere, but I got the feeling (perhaps erroneously) that it was promoting a future development, much like you might have seen back in the early days of the development of Las Vegas.