First thing I saw getting out of the taxi in the French Concession. Behind these doors was a preschool. I love how they removed the center panels of wood and replaced with glass for seeing through...

French Concession 16...

French Concession 38... (on a pebbled wall, something we saw a lot of in this area...)

Quiet part of the French Concession...

Always good to stumble upon das bierhaus while wandering around China...

Shabby chic apartment house in the French Concession... (strangely familiar to me...)

Sleepy Saturday in the neighborhood...

French Concession 70...

And 70 again...

Euro blue 7...

The quiet street of Sun Yat-sen museum and residence...

At the entrance to the museum... the kids find it important that we photograph ourselves with various tickets...

We couldn't take photographs inside, of course... but here's Dr. Sun's back porch. Note the pebbled exterior walls...

Another shot on the porch...

And Dr. Sun's backyard. Holy Toledo... the greenest grass - not to mention the most grass - we've seen in two months...

All over China, bikes and motorbikes have these permanently affixed "mittens" on the handlebars (winter gear)...

Sweet bike...

Tianzifang flower vendor...

Art at Tianzifang... a fun place to hang out on a Saturday...

Quilt image 10... (Tianzifang sidewalk)

More of these. Lots more. I'll spare the blog.

Quilt image 11... (Tianzifang sidewalk 2)

These little shopping alleys are endless...

But hip. Lots of fun places...

Like this wine shop...

And this brand new cooking school called "Good Tea. Good Rice. Good Life". Also on the wall, it reminds: Good Life Can be Simple.

Cool bag shop...

At the pizza shop. Happy campers are holding up well...

And then we went off to find Blue Nankeen (note the victorious navigator...)...

Good karma in this neighborhood...

We kept going and going...

Passing doors like this...

And this...

Cool pebblework... this time a sidewalk...

Bikes...

until this...

Treasure! I will never forget this place (see previous post...)

Quilt image 12... (Blue Nankeen patio...)