Taiwan - New Taipei Street Scenes, Bicycles

This and the next two posts will be of pictures taken on the streets in the area immediately surrounding the apartment in New Taipei City where we stayed, which belonged to Chenjean's older sister Sue-Liang.  This was our second extended stay there, and both times we had the place to ourselves, as Sue-Liang and her husband now live in the United States.  It was quite handy, as public transportation into Taipei proper was close by, and it was on walks to the bus stop that I captured these scenes.

But there're always the good ones "that got away", as they say.  At times we would be walking down the street, I'd see something and make a mental note to capture it on the way back or another day, but then the chance is gone.

Early one morning, when the light was nice and even during a steady but light rain, we passed a guy that operated his oven out on the sidewalk of a back street.  Bread was baking inside, which you could see through the glass in the door, and the rain created a billow that rose from the top as the water sizzled into steam.  Had the Bigger Cahoona with me, but at the moment it was well tucked under my rain jacket, and since we were in a hurry to catch a bus decided to come back the next morning.  But the opportunity never came again; my intention to re-capture a moment evaporated along with the steam rising the day before.  Think it would have been one of my all-time favorite culture shots.

Maybe another day...