Old People

Vietnam's population of over ninety million is overwhelmingly young, which accounts for the vigor and energy you feel there.  It also accounts for the strong feeling we got from our guides that the country's ideology is: let's put the past behind us and stride toward the future!
Still, I found myself looking at some of the old people in the public space and taking pictures of them.  The old people who were visible, available to be photographed, were selling things or working, people who had probably lived long, hard lives, and whose lives are still not very easy.

This woman was selling slices of fresh pineapple on a stick.

The venerable oarsman!

On the street in Hoi An.

She's counting money.

She sold us some incense at a temple, and when I asked permission to take her picture, she struck this proud pose.