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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 had a five day ski trip with her 7th grade class this week and won’t be back until Friday, so we thought we too…
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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 who are wondering around the room. Not as much fun as you would think. I kind of felt sorry for the cats and they,…
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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 colorful. So, after breakfast, I put on my raincoat, tucked my camera in its bag, grabbed my tripod and umbrella and Yumiko and I…
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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 Arisugawa. While I was photographing the duck standing up and flapping his wings, I noticed two large green parrots flying high in the tree…
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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 to have a two day cleaning appointment. The first day is for the bottom teeth and the second for the top. Either that, or…
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Arisugowa And Accupuncture
Today, after breakfast, I walked with Yumiko to school and then veered off into Arisugowa Park. Arisugowa is a beautiful park filled with streams and paths and steps and waterfalls and beautiful trees. I go there a lot. Today I met my friend Joe – a woman from Taiwan who feeds the stray…
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Another Wonderful Sky
It was like Spring today. Ken and I walked around the neighborhood and can see all the buds on the tree branches beginning to swell. Oh, I love it. Kind of wish I were home to see our garden. Oh well… Just before dinner I saw the clouds in the sky again just looking…
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Ballet and Blossoms
It has been quite a weekend. Yesterday – Valentine’s Day – was Yumiko’s ballet performance at U-Port theatre in downtown Tokyo. We were worried that she might be too sick to perform. She’s never ever sick, but two days ago, she woke up sick as a dog with a fever, cough, headache and pale…
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Busy Day at the Doctor’s Office
We had a busy day today. I woke up early and took the 5:18 a.m. subway to the Imperial Palace to try and find great light for dawn photographs. I got a few – nothing earth shattering. Came home by 7:30. Yumiko was a little sick with fever and cough and stomach ache. Not…
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Cloudy Sky
Late in the afternoon today as I was walking back from the grocery store I noticed that the sky was quite dark and brooding. The light was great. So I grabbed my camera and took the steps up to the roof top and got a few pictures. Here they are: