Doing the Photo Rounds.

[sechan19]

I've finally managed to get around to posting photos for Yamanashi-ken and Yokohama. I also updated the Other album with shots from my visit to Yamato-shi and my trip to Odaiba with Eunja.

Enjoy!

Comments

[chainmaile.livejournal.com]

Pretty. I'll get there some day.

[lordameth.livejournal.com]

Excellent photos. Thanks for sharing.

It's a weird feeling to realize that places I passed through every day for the better part of a year, places I grew quite accustomed to, I may never see again, or at least not for a long time. Even if I do go back to Japan soon, I'm expecting to be seeking to live somewhere down south, so no lengthy Yokohama/Tokyo adventures for me for quite some time, if ever.... ....

[reteva.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean. I felt something similar when I went back to Yamato to visit my old host family. There was such a sense of nostalgia and amazement to be suddenly walking down streets I hadn`t seen in a year and feeling as if I`d never been gone, but at the same time sensing a kind of disconnection with the place and shock at the various changes that, had I lived through them, probably would have seemed subtle.

Ichi go ichi e, ne?

Identifying Flowers

[alateaqoe.livejournal.com]

The yellow and orange flowers at Lake Kawaguchi are Torch Lilies, also called Red Hot Poker (Kniphofia uvaria). The bright pink flowers at Saiko Iyashi no Sato are Astilbe (not sure which variety). I have astilbe growing in my front yard - but they aren't doing as well as the ones in your picture.