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My 8-year-old son, Anthony, came into my den while I was watching video of the devastating tsunami that hit up north a few days ago. We're untouched here in Kyoto, but of course he's heard that some bad event happened. I showed him a few of the less graphic videos, and described a bit about [...]
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March is a time of hope in Japan... hope for a good cherry-blossom season, hope for a nice spring, hope for the coming new school/fiscal year (the school year and most companies' fiscal year start in April). Maybe this week has more worry than hope, but hope will return. I mentioned the other day in [...]
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We went for a drive yesterday on the Hieizan Driveway, a scenic toll road through the mountains north-east of Kyoto that's a mere 20 minutes away. It gets quite up there, offering some spectacular (albeit hazy at the moment) views.... Some places along the road still have quite a bit of snow, so we stopped [...]
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When we got Anthony new clothes for the winter, we happened to get him some turtleneck shirts, and (of course) I think he just happens to look really good in them . This photo is from a month ago, a month after his last haircut (which appeared in "Shorn"). He still hasn't had it cut [...]
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Posting about Christmas now is a bit late, but I'm still trying to recover after watching the last week of the year evaporate, so here we are. We started things off with a present from my folks for Anthony, which turned out to be a little Curious George ornament in which George is reading a [...]
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NOTE: Images with an icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size. Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ 70 mm — 1/250 sec, f/2.8, ISO 6400 — full exif Before Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ [...]
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Early last month, at the start of a most photogenic fall-foliage season in the Kyoto area, I posted "First Taste of Fall Colors at Shiga's Amazing Kongourinji Temple", ending that post with this photo: I had intended a quick followup post to explain the "300 meters of sorrow and anguish await" caption of that photo, [...]
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I ended my previous post, Kyoto Mountain Restaurant "Yama no Ie Hasegawa", commenting that I wanted to take Fumie to the middle-of-nowhere restaurant I'd visited the other day with Paul Barr, after having seen it mentioned on a friend's blog. I did that today, visiting for lunch with Fumie and Anthony. We sat out on [...]
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Anthony's school had a day off on Monday, unlike other schools in Kyoto, so I took the opportunity to bring him to the Kyoto City Science Center for Youth, which is sort of like The Exploratorium in San Francisco, though much smaller. Because other schools were in session, we had the place essentially to ourselves. [...]
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Today is a national holiday of some sort in Japan, so we took a drive out to the mountains to take some photos for our Christmas and New-Year's cards. We wanted to go somewhere pretty but uncrowded, and since it was a mad house in Kyoto, we headed out to the same area as in [...]
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Picking up from yesterday's "KidZania Visit #3, Part 1" about last Friday's visit to KidZania, Anthony and Gen were waiting to start their stint as dentists.... The worker had talked to them a bit, then they did a quick paper-rock-scissors competition to decide something, and the photo above was when Anthony apparently won. From what [...]
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Anthony's school had a day off last Friday, so I took the opportunity of him having a free school day to bring him to his third visit to KidZania (the amazing kid place that I introduced in this post). Anthony's friend Gen joined us, for his second visit. I had Gen decide which would be [...]
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Having been engulfed with a big project, I'm sort of surprised to see the week has evaporated and that it's been so long since my previous post. I'm back to reality because Anthony turned 8 yesterday.... Adding it to the present (LEGO™) from his Aunt Namiko and Uncle Shogo (who got married three weeks ago), [...]
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We're back in Kyoto for a month now, but it seems I've forgotten to post this summer's picture of Anthony in front of the tree he planted at 1 year old at my folks' place in Ohio. I try to get a photo with him each year, such as at six years old, four years [...]
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Earlier in the year I wrote a few posts about a restaurant/cafe with large private grounds called Sunainosato (寿長生の郷) in Shiga prefecture, about an hour's drive from Kyoto. The expansive grounds are open to the public, and are quite pretty. A photo of an actual jump did appear on the previous post in this series, [...]
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As I mentioned the other day in "A Couple of Striking Photos", we went bowling the other day with Zak and his kids. The 24mm prime wasn't really appropriate for the bowling alley, so I mostly used the Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5. It came in handy when Zak's kids, Gen and Zoe, were playing. (They fight [...]
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Keeping mostly off the computer for a week has been good for the arm pain I suddenly got at the beginning of the month, so I'll hazard a short post. Today we visited Gen, and all went bowling. Was fun. I bowled a 137, which was good for me. (Once long ago I dated a [...]
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Anthony again attended the birthday part of a family friend, Katie Patterson. Last year was bowling. This year was rock climbing. Katie was turning six, and not intimidated by The Wall at all... Anthony, on the other hand, was not so unintimidated, and it took a while for him to want to try it. He [...]
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Our summer visit to The States is running down, and we've been so busy with family stuff and summer homework that it's hard to squeeze out time to process my photos and to write a post. Last week, Anthony played at a community pool with a friend, 10-year-old Michael, and his next-door neighbor, 9-year-old Kenny.... [...]
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Continuing along from yesterday's post about kanji-study apps and the previous day's app review by a toddler, this post is just some cute (to me) pictures of the kids playing Air Hockey on the iPad. We try not to let the kids do too much with computer games, but it was the day Josh and [...]
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