Monthly Archives: December 2019
Squeak is loving the holiday….today for entertainment she hopped on the dining room table where I had set some ornaments to decorate the holiday centerpiece. I left the room to try and find hangers, came back and she was batting the fourth ornament onto the floor watching to see if one would land without breaking. […]
Hugh and I have been sorting family memorabilia and came across this very old Christmas postcard…it is the message (or should I say warning) that is the story. In case you find it hard to read. the card was sent from Santa Claus to Helen older sister, Ruth… it says Dear Ruth, You must not […]
Early morning shoots are not about the story of the trip but a time to be with my camera and to just react to the environment around me. Sometimes I just shoot unusual patterns, or streaks of light and shadow… it is about geometry, light and nothing. It is about the camera leading me… And, […]
We had to go pick up Tim’s ticket for the Ghibli Museum which he would visit on his last morning in Tokyo. The view was wonderful we could even see Fuji.
Easily the my least favorite thing on the trip…. the first five minutes were good and then all I could think about was “how do I get out of here”, there were no clear exits. And, that thought was followed by “if there is a fire, I’m not getting out”. Won’t EVER go there again. […]
Japan has some of the most interesting stores. The level of specialization in any item, I have not encountered elsewhere. A store devoted to pigment… and who thought this was would be interesting… well, Tim. And he was right. We wandered around the store reading the way the natural pigments were made, looking at their […]
This exhibit hall displays the Daigo Fukurya Maru or the”Lucky Dragon No. 5″ . This boat was fishing near the Marshall Islands on March 1, 1954 when the crew was awakened by a bright light and sunset like colors in the western sky. The US had detonated a hydrogen bomb 1000 times more powerful than […]