文書は英語ですが、写真は共通
(though I'm taking a break from blogging for a while)
Archive for May, 2007Last month we attended a small get-together at the house of one of Anthony's classmates, Yoko-chan. Yoko-chan's daddy really appreciates music ... jazz, classical, classic rock.... all kinds, and we were treated to a wonderful selection from his CD and LP collection throughout the evening. He also plays the guitar quite well, and at one point he and another daddy had a little jam session. I snapped a few wholly unremarkable pictures, but I thought I'd see whether I could turn them into something more interesting. I know that he saw Eric Clapton two nights in a row when [...] 
View full post » For some reason I thought that the cherry trees in Japan generally bore no fruit, so it was with some surprise that a cherry almost hit me in the head while I was standing under a tree today. Sure enough, there were a few very small cherries (the size of large peas) here and there on the branches. It was windy and hard to get a picture of anything, but I did taste one and it was bitter-sweet, which reminded me much of what the normal wild cherries I had as a kid. I was under a cherry tree by [...] 
View full post » I had to drop the car off for a checkup this morning, and decided to walk the mile or so back to my place. There's nothing particularly special between the car shop and home, but then again, it's fairly typical Kyoto, so I brought the camera along. My route was predetermined, but what I took pictures of was random.... The elderly lady above was just crossing the street (Higashioji, at Nijo), perhaps on her way to the bus stop nearby. We'd had a fairly rainy day on Friday, and you can see where the river had risen a bit and [...] 
View full post » I noticed this headline in the news today: Uganda shelves plan to convert rainforest Now, let's imagine a non-native English speaker comes across this headline but doesn't know that "shelves" is a verb meaning "to suspend indefinitely" and instead thinks that it's the more commonly seen plural of "shelf." The headline still makes complete syntactic sense, although the part of speech played by every word changes. What had been the verb becomes the subject, what had been the subject becomes an adjective, and so on... Intended Perceived Uganda nounadjective shelves verbnoun plan object phraseverb toinfinitive phrase convert rainforestI might [...]
On the drive in the mountains yesterday, after the lovely field of purple flowers, we came across this farmer preparing one rice paddy in between two that were already planted. For actually planting the rice, the tractor takes an attachment that holds tray after tray of rice seedlings, and automatically puts them into rows as he drives along. The clump in the foreground above are some such trays, likely left over when the foreground paddy was planted. I suspect they'll use them in the paddy being prepared in the photo. 
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