February 2020

  • Red Crowned Cranes, Foxes, Whooper Swans and More!!

    Red Crowned Cranes, Foxes, Whooper Swans and More!!

    We have one more day before we return home, but what a “Winter in Japan” it has been.  We could not have had a better group of fellow photographers and our leaders Denise Ippolito and Paul McKenzie were beyond the beyond.  Here are a few more of my favorites from the last few days.…

  • Snow Monkeys!!

    Snow Monkeys!!

    Yumiko and I are here in Japan for a photographic adventure.  Our first stop after visiting family and friends in Tokyo is here in Yudanaka where the snow monkeys live.  We were lucky that just before we got here it snowed, however today it is 65 degrees outside.  Ugh…  In fact it is so…

  • Too Soon

    Too Soon

    For Christmas this year I gave each of Tom’s three grandchildren a little praying mantis egg sack.  This morning we got a call that one of the sacks had come alive and a whole lot of babies had emerged.  It is only February 2!!  Way too early.  I rushed around and found a little…