This past Saturday we went for a drive with a couple of our American ICT friends to the open air museum Meiji Mura. “Meiji Village” is a park with over 60 original buildings from the Meiji era (1868 -1912) transported and restored so that we can get a feel for what it was like during…
Opening the blinds today to take advantage of the bliss that is a day cool enough to open the windows, I was met with a lovely surprise! I had thought that the variegated grass plants in our tiny terrace garden were just for greenery but it turns out they are for lilac-ery too!
While browsing the NIC newsletter the other day I noticed they have a regular photo contest. This Summer’s theme is “A Japanese Summer” and I thought: what is more Natsu than fireworks except, perhaps, for flowers in full bloom so I thought I’d enter my “Hanabi no Hana” from my Gifu Natsu Matsuri evening. It…
Though I am basically just hiding from the heat while Superman works and sleeps and works again, we did manage to get out on August 2nd and take in the fireworks in Gifu. Gifu is somewhere that I have longed to go all my life as they have some astonishing flower festivals in Spring. I’m…
Need I say more..? Also pretty in it’s own way, after much (possibly too much) research and investigation I have purchased my first DSLR, my first real camera since I lost access to the family SLR 17 yrs ago! I swear I was going with Olympus but when I picked up the camera I had…
Some people are City people, some people are mountain people, some feel landlocked if they are not on the coast – myself, I can live anywhere if there is enough sky. From our balcony here in Sydney sky is plentiful and spectacular. My high school geography tells me its the meeting of the mountainous terrain…
