Anthony played with an older friend the other day, who made for him some origami puppies (origami being the Japanese art of paper folding). They were adorable, all the more so because their heads bobbled in the breeze like a bobblehead doll.

Made from two sheets of paper, the head is balanced on a point, and hence the bobble....

One you have the basic concept down, you can make adjustments to the body and head and end up with a whole pack of different puppies, each with their own personality.

(The one with the lobster shirt is not origami, but [...]

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This is a new house a short distance from my place that I marvel at every time I go by, for any number of reasons.

You can see the shape of the previous building that was on the site by the roofline-marks left on the walls of the adjacent buildings. It's not uncommon for buildings to attach that way, which I can't understand because if I had a building, I couldn't imagine liking someone attaching to it.

In looking at the parking lot in front of the house, I can make a guess as to what's going on (but it's [...]

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One of the landmarks on Miyajima, Japan, besides the main gate of the Itsukushima Shrine (厳島神社、宮島), is a five-story tall pagoda called, unimaginatively enough, "five-storied Pagoda" (In Japanese: 五重塔, gojyuunodou).

There are a number of large pagodas on the island, but this particular one is centrally located on relatively high ground, so it gets all the glory. You could see it in the background of the "Side View" photo on a recent post.

We didn't actually pay it a visit, but passed by enough that I ended up with plenty of pictures with it. Here it's sort of peeking out [...]

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