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 April, 2005Truly, the cherry blossoms are quite pretty around where I live (map), thankfully neglected by the majority of both tourists and locals alike. While sitting with Anthony under some blossoms yesterday, I thought about how many have tried to put the feeling into words, and how they certainly must have failed. Not being one to pass up a chance to fail miserably, I've given it a go myself: Oh humble Cherry Tree Passing the year in quiet slumber Alive after the long winter Heavily laden with Spring's finest glory Beauty beyond the grasp of words Not retarded crap like [...] Fumie's dad brought some Mangos from Malaysia today (quite illegally, I might add -- bad Daddy, bad!). We were warned not to touch them, as some people apparently have some kind of painful skin reaction to mangos (including Fumie's dad, very apparently). We used Saran Wrap to hold it while we peeled it, then ate the fruity flesh with a fork. It was quite tasty... much more musky than the normal store-bought Mango I've had in the US or Japan, perhaps because they were picked ripe, not ripened on a boat during shipping. I thought the warnings about skin reactions [...] 
View full post » Despite the cold I'm coming down with, I was able to get out for some pictures, and some of the cherry-blossom shots came out okay. I really wish I could place pictures inline in this blog -- the lack of this ability may be the one straw that breaks the Yahoo back, and forces me to move my blog elsewhere. (Note: this post was originally written when my blog was on the now-defunct "Yahoo! 360" social platform.) Some of today's pictures have made their way into my (now defunct) pretty picture gallery. A full-screen view of this pic or this [...] 
View full post » Cherry-blossom viewing can be wonderful, but only if you can find a quiet, relatively alone place in which to enjoy it. Otherwise, it's just an ugly spectacle. A few minutes' walk from where I live is Kyoto's "Maruyama Park", famous for its 600 cherry trees, which are appropriately beautiful now that spring has sprung. I went there today, not to see the trees, but rather to see how bad the people were. 
View full post » During a short drive this morning, it was readily apparent that the cherry blossoms had hit full bloom overnight, as the area offered a dramatically different view than yesterday. I didn't have much time, but did stop to snap the pic above (which certainly does nothing to lend justice to the actual beauty of the scene). It was quite overcast, which mutes the pictures much more than the actual scene. Unfortunately, I'm coming down with a cold, so slept most of the day. I have to go out in the late afternoon, so will bring my camera along to see [...] 
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