Hadley-Ives Summer 2010. Page 5.

Page 5 features photographs from Taiwan and Camp Bunn in Illinois.
Summer photographs page 1; page 2; page 3; page 4; page 5; page 6; page 7; page 8; page 9.
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Lin Shu-Hwah (Third Brother's Wife) with her son, Peng Hsao Wei (Wei-Wei), and Arthur. This row of photographs shows our visit to Third Brother in Dongguan, Guangdong, China.
 This is Third Brother (Peng Yong-Zhong) and his wife, Lin Shu-Hwah. They live in Dongguan, where they have a business.
 Arthur, Sebastian, and Shu-Hwah join with other workers in Third Brother's factory.Chun-Chih and the boys visited Third Brother for a couple days while I was at the conference in Hong Kong.
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Health Food store in Sanyi, on the main shopping street just a few meters from the outstanding and memorable Wood Carving Museum.
 Tourist gifts at Taiwan souvenir shops include these wooden maps, which offer cute representations of Taiwanese identity and self-conception.
 A dragon ornament on a roof in Sanyi, looking out east across the valley at the hills and mountains shrouded in misty air.
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This is Shue Lan-Ling (Cousin Peng Ming-Zhe's wife) and her daughter, Peng Yen-Yi. Ming-Zhe grew up in the house with Chun-Chih, and they are about the same age. Yen-Yi is slightly younger than Sebastian.
 In Hsingchu we visited Tseng Huan-Yui and Jia-Mu. We took a ride along the scenic coastal bike trails. The wind off the Formosan Strait helped us cope with the summer heat.
 At the Hsingchu coast one can rent bikes with various configurations for multiple riders. We decided to rent typical one-person bikes and tandem two-person bikes, rather than the more exotic bikes for three, four, or five riders.
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We joined the family in celebrating Wen-Bing and Pei-Yueh's wedding. Here is the bride, Pei Yueh, making the rounds of guest tables.
 Taiwan is famous for innovating the extreme photography and wedding photo album. Bonnie Adrian has written a book about these albums. I once lived with a housemate who was a bridal photography art director.
 This was the best photograph I took of Wen-Bing and Pei-Yueh at their wedding.
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Mom had three younger siblings. This is her youngest (and only surviving) sister and her brother sitting together at the wedding feast. Mom's sister is joined at the table by Fourth Brother (Peng Zhong-Fa) and Uncle's Wife (Mom and Aunt's sister-in-law). That fish on the table was my favorite main dish at the wedding.
 I had never seen Aunt before, and we were sitting together at the same table, so I took several photographs of her. Here she is speaking with Eldest Sister (Chun-Mei), and Chun-Chih is looking on.
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Chun-Chih and Chun-Mei (Eldest Sister), two of Mom's five daughters.
The Shih children (Mom's Brother's eldest daughter (Susan Lin's) children at their table with Sebastian.
 Sebastian and Arthur at one of the wedding banquet tables. Diana is next to Sebastian. That's Peng Guangyin sitting on Arthur's lap.
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Susan Lin with Greek Shih. Susan is one of Mom's Brother's three daughters (Chun-Chih's first cousin). Susan has five children.
Here is Uncle (Mom's brother) and Greek Shih, his son-in-law.
Wen-Bing's dad (Wu Ching-Lang) and his sister (Wan-Ting) stand with Wan-Ting's boyfriend. The boyfriend's parents are seated at the table.
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Third Sister (Chun-Hwei).
 Third Sister and her husband (Lee Yen-Hsing) speaking with Eileen and Susan (daughters of Mom's brother).
Eldest Brother (Peng Shui-Yuan), Third Sister (Chun-Hwei), and Fourth Brother (Zhong-Fa) resting in the Wu family home after the wedding.
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Pei-Yueh after changing out of her bridal regalia and coming to her new home. In more traditional Chinese weddings the bride's arrival at the groom's home was one of the main events.
 Second Brother's family (but Second Brother couldn't make it to the wedding). In the middle is Jyang Mei-Li (Second Brother's Wife). Eldest son Yi-Fong is standing. Younger son Juen-Jieh is in front.
The Shih family (Susan Lin's family), including Susan's sister Eileen (in pink) and cousin (Chun-Chih's eldest sister) Chun-Mei. Little Guangyin is also at the table (in the lower right).
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This is a Red-Spotted Purple butterfly (Limenitis arthemis astyanax). It's common in Illinois.
 A skipper. Perhaps a Zabulon Skipper. But probably a Peck's Skipper (Polites peckius).
 A common Buckeye Butterfly (Junonia coenia) perched on a human hand.
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The Great Blue Skimmer (Libellula vibrans) is fairly common in Illinois. Here is a male resting on grass. A female common pondhawk (Erythemis simplicicollis) Here a metalic green sweat bee (Agapostemon) takes flight away from a cluster of Blue Vervain (Verbena hastata) flowers.
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The widow skimmer (Libellula luctuosa) in its female form. A male widow skimmer (Libellula luctuosa). A metalic green long-legged fly (from the Dolichopodidae family) posing on a leaf of poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans). I hope its feet are immune to urushiol oil.
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A tasty chicken mushroom (Laetiporus sulphureus, aka sulfur shelf) growing in the grass at Camp Bunn. We never did eat it. Morning dew collects on the petals of this blue flower in the prarie at Camp Bunn. A stag beetle (Lucanus capreolus) wanders through our camp in the early morning after its nocturnal ramblings.
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Sebastian scales the climbing tower's south face as part of his climbing merit badge work. Arthur prepares himself for the rappel down the climbing tower's east face. Arthur has to get accustomed to the idea of leaning backward out from the top of a 10 meter tower.
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Last of the evening twilight over Lake Freesen at Camp Bunn. The evening after a wet day the air around a lantern fills with gnats, moths, and flies. But they don't bother the guys sitting at the table unless someone shakes the dining fly, and then the bugs scatter off the tarp and create a spectacle. Playing at night with OmniGlow glow sticks. The moon was out, and the boys had fun waving the sticks around.

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