Meiji Shrine

  • Yumiko and Sonia at the Meiji Shrine

    Yumiko and Sonia at the Meiji Shrine

     Our last day in Tokyo and Yumiko and Sonia visited the Meiji Shrine.  We will be back home on Tuesday.  See you then!!

  • Friends, Food and No Computer

    It has been a whirlwind of a week. Ken has many friends in Tokyo and we have been eating our way through breakfast, lunch and dinner with new – old friends at each setting. In the meantime, I don’t have my macro lens or home computer with me, so I am going through withdrawal.…

  • A Peace Offering

    A Peace Offering

    Well, dear reader, thanks to my good friends Kate and Maryann and my dear sister Nancy, I feel SO MUCH BETTER today than I did yesterday.  I turned over a new leaf and put together a calendar for 2010 using photographs from Arisugawa Park.  I ordered five copies – one for each of the…

  • Almost Arrested at the Meiji Shrine

    Almost Arrested at the Meiji Shrine

    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 and my tripod and…

  • Adrian Rodzianko

    Adrian Rodzianko

    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 Rodzianko.  Adrian is the…