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Beijing Tomorrow – Harikari Today
The three of us Kono’s are getting up tomorrow morning at 4:30 a.m. and will fly to Beijing with Ken’s sister Takae San. We’ll be back next Thursday. In the meantime, here’s a photo of Yumiko for this week’s class on “No Color – Color” photos. Oh yeah, for those of you who read…
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The Grand Canyon Slide Show
I said in a recent blog that Mr. Takada at the City Hall was probably the nicest person on earth. I may have been too quick in that judgement as Ken’s brother Tokuya San is either tied for first or maybe a close second. Ken’s brother has been so kind to us ever since…
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Five Visits to the City Hall
It’s just about 11:00 a.m. on Monday. Ken and I left the house early this morning to go back to the City Hall to meet with Mr. Takada, our case manager. Mr. Takada is the nicest person on earth. He is a small, well built Japanese man. He is balding on the top and…
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Warm and Cool
This week’s photo assignment is to find subjects to photograph that have both warm and cool colors. If a subject is predominantly warm, the photograph should not have more than 25% of the cool color. And vice versa. I had fun this afternoon in the Aoyama Cemetery scouting out warm and cool. Here’s what…
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Foot on Head and other Stretchy Moves
It’s been a long day. Yumiko had her play at school last night and tonight. I sat through both performances and loved it all. They were great. Her middle school principal was an actor in a former life and he put his heart and soul into creating and directing a 90 minute show that…
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Computer Adventure
Oh, what a time we had on Sunday. It was about 10:30 a.m. Yumiko and I were both working on our computers. Yumiko asked me to take a look at her screen. She had been experimenting by taking the software icons off her “docking station” and putting them somewhere else on her computer so…
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Shin Zen Bi
Well I’m back from the Ballet Parent Teacher Conference. I got there just in time at 3:30. There was a long line of Japanese women winding their way upstairs to the second floor. I got in line with everybody else and finally got to my seat. There were easily 2oo women in the room.…
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Parent Teacher Meeting in Japanese and a Few Flowers
It’s Sunday afternoon. Yumiko is back at ballet practice and then she has a play practice at school. I am supposed to go to a parent teacher meeting at her ballet school at 3:30. I am going to go, but it could be a little difficult as I speak no Japanese and the teachers…
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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 Yumiko and I took off for her school. But again we bundled up and put on our raincoats and got our umbrellas and slogged…