Hiwatari Festival
A little while back – somewhere before the big night out with old buddies Billy and Sean, and another big night out with the J-ster, and another big night out for the walkers at their itterashai party, somewhere before I started archiving all my stuff to photoshelter (nothing visible to the public yet) and somewhere in amongst an excessive schedule of private lessons over a 6 day period, I had a lovely day out at Takao with Mountaingoat. This is a pretty pic I shot of him at the end of the day. He looks so pretty and huggable, doesn’t he. “Kind eyes”. (Who says the camera never lies?) He he. No, I love this pic and I’m so glad I caught this well-hidden aspect to the gruff cynical old bastard.
Anyway, he wrote a really cool story about our day out there at Takao, so go read it here. And my Hiwatari gallery can be found at the usual place. I chose to edit these pics with a bit of an ol-timey feeling since it is such a timeless ceremony and place.
I am totally backlogged with stories to tell and pictures to show but am heading off to Nagasaki for Tyler & Mihoko’s wedding in a few days so don’t know if I’ll get time to catch up… I’ll do my best though. It’s been a fun time. It should be remembered.
Nihon Minkaen
I just put some pics up at Flickr from our excellent day at Nihon Minkaen yesterday. Helen, Sandi, her two great kids Max and Dexter and I hit Mukogaokayuen to visit this great park-museum of old style Japanese houses, all relocated from other parts of (mostly rural) Japan. So very cool. It’s a fascinating place full of old-skool Japanese architecture and thorough feature/lifestyle explanations. Ch-ch-check it out if you’re in these parts….
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