LOOKS LIKE A CHINESE PAINTING. Welcome, visitors from Atlantic Blog who checked out the new look there, and wandered over here. Today, there's a fine photograph from the Sligo area that gives the impression of a Chinese painting. On a trip to Taiwan, I figured it out: island, humid, lots of clouds. True also of Ireland, apparently. Less so of New Zealand, particularly the South Island, where midsummer snowfalls at 500 meters are not out of the question. (Imagine it snowing on Rib Mountain outside Wausau, Wisconsin, on the 4th of July.)