Autumn Comes To Shanghai

Autumn comes to Shanghai. Decides it’s too cold. Leaves again.

There’s a lot of trees in Shanghai. We tend not to notice but they’re there, especially down town in the former French Concession. And trees mean leaves. Lots of leaves. All falling at the same time. A couple of weeks ago it was hot and bright sunshine in Shanghai, today temperatures approach zero. We seem to skip over Autumn here. It’s hot then suddenly it’s bitterly cold and we’re digging out our big winter coats and wishing the builders in Shanghai would discover insulation and draft proofing. Over a period of about two weeks all the leaves fall from the trees and the road sweepers are kept very busy. God bless ‘em they do a marvelous job.