Another blue as blue sky can be afternoon at the Family Pool.
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Roy Orbison lives… In Ushita
This “non-traditional” performance at our neighborhood summer festival is actually just the kind of thing you come to expect to see at Japanese festivals. I should say, however, that it was followed by a local Japanese taiko drum group with a tiny little old lady dressed us as Ebisu. Download now or watch on posterous [...]
We are not the only ones who are ready for summer…
Posted via email from littleforeigner’s posterous After a bit of a brutal rainy season, the first cicada (I’ve seen) of the summer.
A lot of rain in Hiroshima over the past few days…
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Obake jinbei
Posted via email from littleforeigner’s posterous Summer in Japan is the season for ghost stories, jinbei and seeking out high powered air conditioning in shopping malls.
Discarded beauty on Route 255
Posted via email from littleforeigner’s posterous Discarded sake cup seen in the gutter on the road to Azuma-yama for the Hiba-yama Skyline Run. The characters “美人” mean “beautiful woman”.
Dandelion clocks
Today the kids loved playing with the dandelion clocks along the shady riverside trails only a hot spring afternoon.
CENTRO Spring Party
CENTRO is a local Japanese language web magazine. It’s a nicely put together group blog on which contributors introduce a lot music, fashion and design type stuff that captures their eyes as well as examples of their own photography, video work and music. They also publish some nice vignettes. Last night was the CENTRO Spring [...]
Hipstamatic Peace Memorial Park
Some pictures I took in Peace Memorial Park last week with the Hipstamatic app on my iPhone. Full resolution pics can be seen here.
Ushita-yama
I run the mountain trail that runs above our neighborhood at least once a week, but last week I did something that I haven’t done in a long time; I walked. Strolling along the trail in the rain looking at the spring flowers was a perfect way to decompressing after a hard weekend which include [...]
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