A quiet spot in Suzhou's Sheraton
Zhuozheng 'Humble Administrator's Garden'
Garden entrance
Eugenia's group
The ancient Celestial Spring
... is not as clean as one would hope
The Celestial Spring pavillion
It's national lotus week
Mixed green shades
Bridge
Eugenia tells us 'Bonzai is a Chinese invention'
'Borrowed View' with Beisi Pagoda
'Framed View' from the Secluded Pavillion
Looking across the lotus pond to the Moon Gate
Roof tiles
Tree
The boat-like pavillion among the lotus, next to the covered bridge
Curved bridges connect curved paths
The Floating Green Tower windows
'Latticed View'
Lotus leaves with 'water glider' on the water
Pavement patterns
Writing-on-bamboo
Bamboo node
'Lattice View' of Zack
Courtyard
Moon bridge
'Open Bridge'
'Good Luck' with 5 bats at the Bonzai Garden entrance
Bonzai rock
Bonzai trunk
Bonzai trunk
Bonzai
Bonzai
'The Hall of 36 Pairs of Mandarin Ducks' -
blue, snow-scape mimicking glass
Does this look like a snowy landscape ?
Mahogany theatre screen in 'The Hall of 36 Pairs of Mandarin Ducks'
Some of the '36 Pairs of Mandarin Ducks'
The fan-shape pavillion
Eugenia's group
Exiting the garden
Fossils
Which US state is this ?
Fossilized Nautilus
Jeff and Zack at lunch in Choyers Silk Mill restaurant
From moth to silk
The 35-day cycle from moth, eggs, 5 larval stages, coccoon and nymph
Silk-spinning 5th instar larve of the Silworm moth
8 mulberry leaves for each coccoon
The outer-layer scaffold contains many disordered silk threads
Silk coccoons - the larger ones contain 2 larvae
Stripping the outer silk fibers from the boiled coccoons
until a single fiber remains
Spinning 8 1200-meter silk fibers into a thread
Bobbing coccoons in water:
spinning 8 1200-meter silk fibers into a thread
Wrapping 8-fiber threads on a spool
Spools are filling up
Spools are combined into skeins
Completed 128-gram skeins
8 2-larvae entwisted silk coccoons are stretched-combined,
and stretched-combined further in sets of 10
Movie: Stretching silk is hard work
 - 100 layers for 1 bed cover.JPG)
Stretching silk from 80 coccoons (120 miles of silk):
100 layers for 1 bed cover
12,000 miles of silk made into 1 bedcover
Kunshan - Planners of the Next Meeting
Annelee, Keith, Julie
Mr. Lin and highschool principals
Highschool principals
Interested discussion
Yue LIN makes a point
JESIE - minute taking and translation
Do you think so too ?
Let's toast!
... on a successful Consortium
Enjoying dinner
Round-table engagement
On all our success!
Chloe and Rob
To the Consortium!
Let's go to a club - with quiet music
Jenny and Zack - as often seen
Keith Gramling, Jakob Waterborg
Club scene
Let's share a bucket of beer or two
Movie: Life music
Rob likes the music
Movie: Rocking beat
Rob and Wen
Zack Fang in peaceful rest