Marvelous Mountain Life

I intended to take pictures of Yeongyang and be on my way home.

But I stayed out longer than I intended because the locals caught my attention. People here always seem to interest me in one way or other. Maybe that's because there is always a waylaid of the Samsung Galaxy and other smartpones whose owners ride bicycles, manage fruit stands, run farms, wood carvers, rice wine factories, car garages, or are students no older than age eight. Yeongyang brings to mind a 'back to basics' feeling, despite the breaches of modern technology that are in most hands including mine.

Hard to believe someone spent time with their hands carving this fantastic piece of art. The same goes for the pieces below! And these artists were charging a high dollar, or, uh, won, for their money (as they should be). None of it was cheap.

Two of my students playing behind shops and a car garage in their Hapkido uniforms.

My students had just bought candy for themselves--if only there was enough to go around. Candy trading time...

"The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it."
- Charles Baudelaire

Yours truly,

                  Evan