Business Orientation Tour Of China

In 2010 and 2012 , I organized two eighteen day all inclusive six province tours of Northern and Southern China.  Here is a group picture of our last group in front of the Heavenly Temple in The Forbidden City.

In September of 2014,  I am going to organize a 21 day Business Orientation Tour of China that is a "unique blend of business and cultural experiences".   The tentative itinerary can be found in the following blogsite:  http://alltheteainchinatour.blogspot.ca
If anyone wants to go please contact me for more details.
I just finished reading a documentary novel by Gavin Menzies titled:  1421 when China Discovered America.  It is a fascinating documentary that provides proof that the Chinese under Cheng He and his giant treasure ships sailed the world in several voyages between 1407 and 1421 and traded and established colonies in Africa, India, Australia, South America , the Carribbean, and North America centuries before the Portuguese explorers of Bartholomew Diaz, Vasco da Gama, Ferdinand Magellan or the Italian Christopher Columbus or the Spanish Conquistadors. Moreover, the  Europeans were using nautical maps that were created by the Chinese that were copied  by Italian cartographers and purchased by Henry the Navigator of Portugal who gave these nautical maps to the
explorers he sponsored.  Beside the heavenly temple is a giant astrolabe that depicts the world as being round and has positions of the stars and countries clearly mapped out . This astrolab was positioned in the heavenly temple to assist the astronomers in plotting China's position relative to all the known countries in the world and established China as the Middle Kingdom. The world is depicted as being round and not flat. With this documented book , Western historians will have to re-evaluate the history and development of exploration prior to 1492.

Picking Cherries

In my front yard, I have a Macintosh apple tree,  a plum tree and a cherry tree. The apple tree has only a few apples this year because the tree is taking a rest from last year's abundant harvest. There are two small green plums on the plum tree. I have not had much success in getting the plum tree to bear fruit.  In the five years since I planted the plum tree, this is the first time that two plums formed even though the tree has produced flowers for five consecutive years.  The cherry tree that is over 25 years old is still producing cherries and I have invited friends to pick the cherries. The tree is getting old and I have had to saw off a number of dying branches. The Cherry tree has been grafted onto a Nanjing cherry tree so the roots of the tree is really a Nanjing cherry tree. In my back yard behind my greenhouse I have another Macintosh tree and a Nanjing cherry tree.  The cherries from the Nanjing cherry tree produces small sweet pea sized cherries.  The cherry tree produces marble sized cherries and have a bit of a tart taste.  In the backyard , I also have a raspberry bush and a gojii berry bush. In front of my garage are three blueberry bushes. And finally, in the greenhouse, I have a potted peach tree  and six fruit bearing Fig trees that originally came from Italy.