"Prayer flags---mere rags on sticks, like wash-day in the slums...."The quotation above is from Tulku, by Peter Dickinson and one of my favorites in the genre of juvenile literature. The story, set in China and Tibet, seems to draw on two intrepid, and eccentric, explorers: Isabella Bird and Alexandra David-Neel, both of whom I read when I was young. I'm now rereading the Dickinson book. When I came upon the quote on prayer flags, I had to take some more photos of the ones I hung early this year. I strung mine of rope I braided so they are not on sticks. That only means that they capture the washline imagery even more. Given the weather extremes they've been through for the past two months, I'm a bit stunned that they are still waving.
