Eddy Currents part 2 - Kaifeng: Roosters and Peacocks and Giraffes, Oh My!

Kaifeng was nice. The food was nice. But the predominant feature of the trip was the kitsch. Here's what I mean:

We were there for the Chrysanthamum show. The flowers were nice. Here are some nice yellow and red and purple ones behind Lisa and Mr. Zhao and Ye Dong of the FAO.










Ok. And here is a giant paper-mache rooster on a flower globe depicting China surrounded by more nice flowers and some plastic deer, for some reason.










Remember what I wrote about unintentional poses being funny. Well as Bernice is demonstrating, they're even funnier when you know the person...and a semi-abstract giant golden rooster is involved. But the roosters make sense, it's the year of the rooster. So do the peacocks (not shown) because they are easy to make out of flowers and are pretty and stuff. And then...






"So I really like the purple ones and those balls of flowers are....is that....a pair of....giraffes.....?"












Still to come: Eddy Currents part 3 - Halloween: Clever Subtitle.