January 2009

  • Lazy Saturday

    Lazy Saturday

    It’s a lazy Saturday afternoon.  Yumiko is at ballet practice.  Ken is writing for the Japanese Newsletter and I am here at the computer looking at photos I took today for my class.  This week’s assignment is Window Light.  I enlisted Yumiko again and she sat for me.  Afterwards I took a walk in the rain and found…

  • Shirane Mountain Adventure

    Shirane Mountain Adventure

    It’s Wednesday morning here in Tokyo.  Ken, Yumiko and I just got back last night from a three day adventure at a ski lodge in the Shirane Mountains in northern Japan.  Yumiko spent the better part of all three days learning how to ski.  I took a million not so hot photographs of the mountains…

  • Adrian Rodzianko

    Adrian Rodzianko

    It’s Saturday night about 10:30 and I should be hitting the sack as the three of us Kono’s will be off tomorrow at 5:30 a.m. for a three day skiing trip somewhere in the middle of Japan.  Today we had a wonderful guest from the U.S. of A. – Adrian Rodzianko.  Adrian is the…

  • Arisugawa Park

    Arisugawa Park

    It’s Friday evening after dinner.  We are all back home watching Larry King Live with Maureen Dowd, Paul Begala and DeDe Myers talking about Obama’s inauguration and his first two days in office. Took photos today in Arisugawa Park and then later in the day on the roof of our building.  My assignment this…

  • My First Entry

    O.K. boys and girls.  This is my first blog entry.  I am sitting here in our little apartment in Tokyo.  It is now 7:05 a.m.  It is Friday morning, January 23 and we will all be having a little breakfast in about five minutes.  Then Yumiko and I will walk the two miles to…