Various Japanese Treats

First course of a yakitori dinner with friends visiting from NYC. 

image.jpg

Just enough of different but harmonious flavors. 

Cherry Viewing Season is Over

Here is the only interesting photo of the cherry trees I took this year. It is strangely flat in appearance. There is something up with this but I did not alter it beyond simple tweaks.  

Mark Twain's Wisdom

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”


― Mark TwainThe Innocents Abroad/Roughing It

skyline

Our balcony isn't all that spectacular, but the sky rarely disappoints!

file

On Vision

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” 

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry