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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 we knew we had to get to the ear doctor or she would go crazy. (See Photo for the Itchy Ear) So yesterday when…
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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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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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Yumiko’s Savings Account
Ken has mostly only good things to say about Japan and its culture, and I would agree. However after yesterday’s little incident at the bank, he may have changed his tune just a bit. Let me give you the background which began a few weeks ago. Yumiko, as she did in the U.S.,…
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Yumiko Backlit in Japan
Last weekend Yumiko posed for a few backlighting photographs on the windowsill in our hotel room at the Maza Prince Hotel in Northern Japan. She is a true sport.
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Lazy Saturday
It’s a lazy Saturday afternoon. Yumiko is at ballet practice. Ken is writing for the Japanese Newsletter and I am here at the computer looking at photos I took today for my class. This week’s assignment is Window Light. I enlisted Yumiko again and she sat for me. Afterwards I took a walk in the rain and found…
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Arisugawa Park
It’s Friday evening after dinner. We are all back home watching Larry King Live with Maureen Dowd, Paul Begala and DeDe Myers talking about Obama’s inauguration and his first two days in office. Took photos today in Arisugawa Park and then later in the day on the roof of our building. My assignment this…
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My First Entry
O.K. boys and girls. This is my first blog entry. I am sitting here in our little apartment in Tokyo. It is now 7:05 a.m. It is Friday morning, January 23 and we will all be having a little breakfast in about five minutes. Then Yumiko and I will walk the two miles to…