• Color

    Color

    I’m starting a new photo class today.  The next four weeks are all about color.  I think I’m going to love it.  It was raining hard again this morning when…

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  • An Erratum

    An Erratum

    Today Ken and I had a great lunch in a Chinese restaurant with his old school mate Norio Mihira and his wife Slyvia.  Mr. Mihira was for many years the…

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  • Monday Evening and the Little Bird

    Monday Evening and the Little Bird

    It’s Monday evening.  Yumiko has just returned from ballet practice and she hit the sack early.  She is in the midst of taking the “ERB” tests at school.  She has…

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  • 2-7-21 Ai Ai Building and The Itchy Ear

    2-7-21 Ai Ai Building and The Itchy Ear

    Finding places in Tokyo is no easy feat.  Today, Yumiko needed to go to the ear doctor.  She has had an itchy inner ear problem for a few days and…

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  • Snow and Cherry Trees

    Snow and Cherry Trees

    It snowed today!!  Ken says it never snows in Tokyo anymore, but it snowed today.  Earlier this morning before the snow, I was in YoYogi Park and captured a few…

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  • Beautiful Izu Peninsula

    Beautiful Izu Peninsula

    It’s now Thursday afternoon and Ken and I are back from our three day adventure at a little Japanese Inn on the Izu Peninsula in the town of Atagawa.  Yumiko…

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  • Weekend and Week Ahead

    Weekend and Week Ahead

    On Saturday we visited a “Cat Cafe” in downtown Tokyo.  A Cat Cafe is a place where you go in, have a cup of coffee and pet the many cats…

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  • Tall, Skinny, Naked, Long Legged Running Tree

    Tall, Skinny, Naked, Long Legged Running Tree

    It rained all night last night and most of the day today.  I learned that a great time to take photographs is in the rain.  Everything is more vibrant and…

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  • Green Parrots in Arisugawa Park

    Green Parrots in Arisugawa Park

    Had fun today with the start of a new week’s photo assignment.  This week it’s all about composition.  I started by taking photos of a duck in a pond at…

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  • Bushy Eyebrows, Oily Hair and Rotating Trees

    Bushy Eyebrows, Oily Hair and Rotating Trees

    Today Ken and I went back to the father and son dentist team to have a second day of cleaning.  I am so hoping that the custom in Japan is…

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