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Yumiko’s Savings Account
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Ken has mostly only good things to say about Japan and its culture, and I would agree. However after yesterday’s little incident at the bank, he may have changed his tune just a bit. Let me give you the background which began a few weeks ago. Yumiko, as she…
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Yumiko Backlit in Japan
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Last weekend Yumiko posed for a few backlighting photographs on the windowsill in our hotel room at the Maza Prince Hotel in Northern Japan. She is a true sport.
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Almost Arrested at the Meiji Shrine
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Yesterday I walked to the Meiji Shrine to see if I could get a good photograph of one of the interior hallways within the shrine itself. My photo school assignment this week is “Window Light” and I remembered seeing good “window light” at the Meiji Shrine. I took my camera…
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Lazy Saturday
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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…
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Shirane Mountain Adventure
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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…
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Adrian Rodzianko
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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…
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Arisugawa Park
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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…
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My First Entry
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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…
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