This perhaps looks like a painting or a photo with a painting effect applied, but it's actually a combination of three photos I took yesterday, with no other special effects added. I'll describe how I made it in a later post; it's my hope for now that you'll simply be able to enjoy it.

The part shown above is just a small portion of the whole image, so that I could show some detail lost during the reduction required to fit a picture onto my blog. Even at that, it's from a version that was reduced to 25% of the [...]

Yesterday while returning from Anthony's gymnastics class (it was jump-rope day), I gave directions to a couple of lost tourists from northern Japan. In appreciation, they gave Anthony a box of chocolate. It was almost dinner time, but I said that he could have some after dinner.

We try to limit his junk food, as I've written before. We don't deny it totally, but save it for special occasions so that it doesn't become habit. He does enjoy it when he gets it, like all kids, especially chocolate.

After dinner, he excitedly passed out peaces to everyone, and finally bit [...]

Another product of my trip to Enkouji the other day (also see this post and this).

Like most of these kinds of pictures, this one really needs to be blown up to enjoy it in its full glory, so be sure to click on the image for a larger view.

While on a short bike ride with Anthony today, we came upon this bamboo fence with a colorful vine sticking through. I thought it was pretty.

"Deppresso," one of Coca-Cola Japan's Georgia line of coffees, is named to evoke feelings of "Deep Espresso."