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Autumn in the North

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  I bought a cup of Australian White coffee. It's a Chinese word for "good luck on Wednesday". On my feet were slippers knitted by my grandmother, maybe not as nice as the slippers sold in the mall, but super warm, which is my grandmother's love.    This week to the vase for a bouquet of white roses, maybe not my life needs flowers, but I need flowers. btw, on the way home one of the flowers was caught off the car door, so sad.😭 I visited another city this week, Jinan, and didn't expect to see lush green willow trees in the late autumn in the north. Jinan is also called Spring City, where there are springs on the roadside that you can drink directly from by turning on the tap. People living here also carry buckets to fetch water to drink in the morning.

My recent life

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 Autumn is completely different in the south and the north. My hometown is Chengdu, Sichuan province in southern China, where the temperature is around twenty degrees in autumn and the leaves do not fade extensively. Now I'm in the north of China, in Shandong province, where the maple leaves are already red and the temperature is gradually dropping, averaging only about ten degrees. I took this picture yesterday in Jinan, Shandong Province, and it's beautiful with red maple leaves and reeds all over the mountains. This is the dog I adopted from the rescue in September of this year, her name is Changan and she is a year and a half old. A Labrador who is trying to lose weight, she was only 50 pounds when I adopted her and now she's up to 70 pounds. She is a little shorter than a regular Labrador because she was abused as a child and had her limbs broken. The first time I tried the northern copper pot shabu-shabu, a different kind of Sichuan hot pot where water is used as the ...