Spring is in full gear!

The fresh air... I love it. Most Beijingers complain about spring; they say it's too windy. Bullocks to that, it's so refreshing. The winds come in from the W and NW, after running over the mountains full of coniferous trees. In other words, it's FRESH! It blows away the smog and replaces it with fresh mountain air. It can be pretty forceful at times, but I think the locals complain because it messes their hair. The only down-side to the winds coming from the NW is that they occasionally carry a lot of silt and dust from the deserts in inner mongolia, just beyond the hills, and that can cause some pretty nasty dust-storms. But so far this year I've only been subjected to said dustiness a couple of times.