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Mother’s Day and Bee with a Drop of Water
It’s Mother’s Day and Yumiko and I just got back from seeing a formal dress rehearsal of the Matsuyama Ballet Company’s production of Cinderella. It was so unbelievably good. The ballet dancers are all professionals and probably (no bias here) the best in Japan. The woman who played the role of Cinderella was…
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Portrait in the Rain
It rained all day today. The weatherman says there is a typhoon brewing out in the Pacific Ocean. Although we could have taken the train, Yumiko and I braved the torrential rain and slogged our way to school. I veered off and took a million not-so-hot photographs in wet Arisugawa Park. Nothing great to…
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Boy’s Day at Sylvia and Norio San’s House
We took the train yesterday to the far western part of Tokyo to have lunch and spend a wonderful rainy day with Ken’s friends Norio and Sylvia Mihira. Ken went to Keio University with Norio 40 years ago and they’ve been good friends all these years. I’ve mentioned Sylvia before on this blog. She…
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Bugs, Bugs, Bugs
Still looking for the elusive wildlife, but only came up with some little crawlers and flyers in the insect world. Oh what a world there is out there in bugville.
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Eyes in Focus
It’s early, early Monday morning. Yesterday I searched and searched for exotic wildlife for my photo assignment this week. I am supposed to submit three portraits of wildlife with eyes in focus. All I could come up with were three more stray kitty cats. They are every where here and all of them are…
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Dr. Kobayakawa and the Turtle
It’s pouring rain outside. Yumiko is at ballet practice. Ken went with his friend Tamon to the 50th anniversary reunion of his middle school and I am here all by myself which does not happen often. What trouble can I get into? I thought I might try to describe a situation that happened to…
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Back to the Wildllife
Well now that the Sister Party is over I’m back to the wildlife – That’s wildlife photographs. My homework this week was to submit three “macro” shots of wildlife of any kind. Here are my candidates.
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Barbara’s Questions
My dear friend Barbara wrote me today wanting the REAL scoop on the Riley/Baumert Girls visit to Japan. She asked me a few questions and so it gives me great pleasure to answer each as they came across my e-mail. Question: Did everyone do the naked bath? YES!!!! Marjorie and Suzy were a little…