Our apartment building is on the right.  The entrance is in a courtyard
off an alley off a long (though small) lane.  Our room is the second on
the right.  In the courtyard at left, one of our neighborhood keeps
birds in cages.  He leaves them out there when the weather is
significantly above freezing.  I guess this day was cold, because the
cages aren't there (sorry). <br /> In the spring, the birds would say
hello to me in Mandarin.  Di Yin says they also speak a bit of
Shanghainese ("hello little girl").