Where Globe-Trotting meets Beach-Combing
It’s so interesting to watch the seasons change along the Hikichigawa (Hikichi River). The top picture was taken Labor Day weekend from the same bridge where I took this one in the spring—pretty year-round! 🙂 Chris and I walked to Hikichidai (Hikichi Park) via the Hikichigawa. We’d walked through the park on our way to…
Chris arrived home via the Philippines, where he saw a lot of cool places and islands and bought me this tablecloth! It matches other tableware we have really well, including this tea set his parents gave me for Christmas last year. Tablecloth: Philippines, chopsticks: Singapore, candlesticks: South Korea, bamboo napkin rings: Pineapple Post in Jacksonville…
My friend Jill invited me to the Oak City Mall flower market Wednesday morning. We both got tons of flowers to decorate our homes for our returning husbands! There are some flower shops down the street from my house, but a whole market sounded too good to miss. And the prices were better, too! I…
I have no idea what Japan’s weather is really like because the locals say we had a warm winter, a late spring and a cool summer. Produce costs are double what they usually are, say my English students. Last Saturday was the hottest day of the summer with highs in the mid-90s, a bajillion perfect…
GUM and St. Basil’s Cathedral Church inside the Kremlin GUM and the national history museum I think The famous Russian ballet performs here. St. Basil’s Cathedral at night
It’s an earthquake…it’s a tsunami…no! It’s a typhoon or something! The Japan Meteorological Agency provides this helpful map for all those people who say, “Right, where do you live? Uh-huh…and where’s Tokyo?” Tokyo is the left side of that red area. The red peninsula is Chiba (high wave warning). Tokyo prefecture has a high wave…
A couple weeks ago my friend Kristin and I watched the indie hit musical Once which got rave reviews on NPR a few summers ago. I found it at the library and rented it. The music was nice; the plot was ridiculous and boring. Anywho, in this one scene the guy gets the girl to…
