What does that have to do with the pictures? Well nothing really, but my dilapidated basement apartment was located close to a big lake that's a very popular tourist area. I had the chance to revisit the area and it was pretty much like I remembered.
There is one big lake with a bridge over and lots of food vendors and peddle boats. They revamped the area to make it more modern and with more shops, but it was essentially what it was 9 years ago.
One of the shop had these really colorful leather bracelets. I'm a bit old for leather jewelries but the way they were arranged and displayed was a photographer's dream.
In some ways the second time I left Taiwan I really left it. It's no longer my home but I'm no longer that fresh faced college grad. Almost a decade later I see that by leaving Taiwan my horizon was expanded and my person became more well rounded. Perhaps it wasn't a devious smirk that was on life's face, maybe it was the smile a mother bird gives to her baby chick before pushing it out of the nest so it can spread its wings.
Until next time, Formosa.
