Dragon Guest House in the morning

The garden: square and grassy with a little pavestone path and palm trees. Four square tables with blue and white striped awnings. Small brown birds playing.

Dragon Guest House is red brick with bluegrey and white trim. Vines and roses climbing all over the west wall. The floors stacked on top of each other, each one smaller than the last, as if they could be put one inside the other. Each floor has a large veranda.

Lots of noise and light: the woman next door washing clothes, people talking, different types of birds screaming and cooing and clucking and cawing. Far-off traffic noises.