A dancer overlooking the lake toward Dali in Yunnan Province, China. I was in Dali one afternoon when she and her friend spotted me. "You look lost," her friend said. I told her I wasn't sure. "Then you must have tea with us. We know where the best tea is." We had tea together, and it was the best, and two days later they took me to this resort on the far side of the lake with them for a private open-air party. The next morning I went with them to their friend's home nearby, a renowned architect, which had to have been one of the most beautiful homes I saw in China -- and a wildly tragic thing that I got no decent photos of it.