D.C.

Generally, I like DC much more, than NYC. NYC is too crowded, too dirty and too narrow.

Chicago is a city avaliable just for summer.

Photo by Hong Yu, DC USA 2011

Meditation

Aquincum today,with modern trains passing by in every 20 minutes.
Photo by HongYu

It was believed that Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote part of his philosophy in Aquincum (Budapest today).

Limestone portrait of Emperor Marcus Aurelius that was found in Pest.
Photo by HongYu

Some quotations of this great work are listed below. Should take note of that, the Emperor which mother tongue was Latin,wrote all of this in Greek:

- "Do not suppose that you are hurt, and your complaint will cease."

- "Natrue works up the matter of the universe like wax: Now it is a horse, soon you will find it melted down and run into the figure of a tree, then a man, then something else. Only for a brief time is it fixed in any soecies."

- "Soon you will be ashes and bones. A mere name at most - and even that is just a sound, an echo. The things we want in life are empty, stale, trivial."

- "Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he was overtaken by death. And consider the shortness of life, the boundless abyss of time past and futrue, the feebleness of all matter."

I do really appreciate, that he wrote such beatiful things.

Continued caprice, from ancient Buda with Greek style, about love

Photo by HongYu at Aquincum

It is an accessory for nekelace that was made at about 3rd century AD. A typical roman year.

This glass paste cameo was found in Budapest. The greek inscription on the accessory as:

"I do not care what people say, love me, and it will do you good."


I do really want this.

Magyar

Paganism and Christian
photo by HongYu

Szechenyi lanchid
photo by HongYu

For Royal family: It is my city, (I'd use force if...)
photo by HongYu

Hight makes Power
photo by HongYu

Generally, Budapest is one of the most beatiful cities that I'd ever seen.

Other cities of this size (or smaller) with such exiting views can be: Bergamo, Tallin.

These cities are all like this: the most precious part is sitting on the top of a highland that can easily overlook the whole city.

Modern urban life

Do you really like it?

Photo by HongYu at La Defense, Paris, France

You - wonder

Photo by Hong Yu at Ogorodny proezd, Moscow.