A sea of plum blossoms at a plum blossom festival near Lake Tai (太湖 Tài Hú), about an hour outside Suzhou

Vintage motorcycle and sidecar in French Concession

Slightly creepy entrance to an older style apartment block, south of Caobao Lu - these buildings are usually 6 stories high (the maximum allowed without an elevator) and usually have 2 or 4 units off each floor of each stairway (in other words, no internal corridors)

A circular pedestrian overpass at Longcao Lu and Longwu Lu intersection - even though there are strips for the blind on almost every sidewalk in Shanghai, one wonders how they think someone in a wheelchair is supposed to negotiate these overpasses!

Lantern Festival, Yuyuan Bazaar, Old Town - the festival celebrates the first full moon of the year of the Ox

On the plaza (Century Square) at Shanghai Science and Technology Museum Station on Line 2 on way to Century Park

This old guy makes little models of bicycles out of copper wire and rubber tubing, with moving pedals, crank and wheels - he makes them while he sits there on the sidewalk! French Concession near Shanxi Lu Station

Potted plant transport, around the corner from home

Room with a view, behind Caoxi Lu station

Caobao Lu Station on Line 1 (Red Line) of the Shanghai Metro - it's about 100m away from where I live. Line 1 was Shanghai's first subway line and was only opened in 1995, but today there are 8 lines in operation.