Happy year of the rabbit!

Grandmother celebrating with her family at He Juling's wedding (29 January 2011, Suizhou, Hubei Province, China)
Suizhou, Hubei, CHINA — This past weekend I attended Adeline‘s wedding in her village, 2 hours out of Wuhan, Hubei Province. The ground was frosty, the air chilly, but the smiles of her community warmed the weekend-long celebration. The morning of her wedding, we sat in her family’s courtyard to a multi-course breakfast preluded by a spread of sweets for a sweet life of matrimony. Her cousin’s grandmother sat across from me, kindly pushing all the dishes closer to my side of the table.
Eat well and be well. 新年快乐!




Yay for year of the rabbit!!! I’m not biased or anything.
It is memorable time.