The Orangerie
Went to The Orangerie to see Monet’s giant water lilly canvases bathed in natural light, just as the artist intended. Saw a lot of this and this but, mostly this Posted via email from littleforeigner’s posterous
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Another blue as blue sky can be afternoon at the Family Pool.
Posted via email from littleforeigner’s posterous Read more about Hiroshima’s Family Pool here on GetHiroshima.com.
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.
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.
Now that’s what I call banana bread
On the way back from the Unity Dub beach party last weekend we stopped at a highway rest stop (can’t remember which one – it was between Himeji and Hiroshima somewhere) that seemed to offer all kinds of “special products”. One of which was this hyper-realistic banana shaped banana bread. They also had realistic looking [...]
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”.
Kagura action figures
At Hongo rest stop on the Chugoku Expressway – a morning set with salmon, fried egg, salad, miso soup, pickles and all you can eat rice for a mere ¥550. Posted via email from littleforeigner’s posterous
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.
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