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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:
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Nezu
This morning I took the train from Omotesando Station to Nezu with Ken’s brother Tokuya San. It was rush hour – about 8:00 and the train was packed solid. Tokuya, knowing that I wanted to find new places to photograph, introduced me to his friend Kimiko Takahasi. Takahasi San is a wonderfully warm kind…
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Tokyo at Dawn
I got up early this morning determined to find my way to the Imperial Palace before dawn. I took the subway and got there just in time as the sun was rising. Tokyo is such a beautiful city in the early morning light. Here are a few photos including Tokyo at Dawn; the Stone…
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Mt. Asama – Volcano that Erupted Last Week
Last Thursday Ken and I got up early and took the bullet train to Sakudaira near Nagano in Central Japan. When we walked out of the train station, right there in front of us was Mt. Asama, the same volcanic mountain that erupted last week spewing volcanic ash and molten rock high into…