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Stray love
Warm and happy lap sharing
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Infrastructure walk, water line
When the landslide took out the Takakura road at Oyama-ji on September 22nd, it carried our water main with it (as well as the power and optic fiber cables). The water company quickly offered workarounds while they figured out a temporary solution that would restore water supply to our side of the mountain. And yesterday,…
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Butterfly season
Indian Fritillary
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Sunday stroll uphill
The weather has finally cooled to a comfortable temperature so our hiking season began today with a walk up Gotenyama. It’s a pretty mountain with some steep paths leading to a shrine to Daikoku and a gorgeous view over the valley. Last time we hiked Gotenyama was April 2020 as we managed Covid. I wasn’t…
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Morning detente
Rare non-hissing moment together
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Not a leaf
It’s a Dark Evening Brown butterfly (Melanitis phedima, クロコノマチョウ / Kurokonomachou)
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Dragonfruit Pink
Betacyanins color dragonfruit and beets
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Moblog, 2026 style
Years before smartphones existed, friends of mine in the Japan Bloggers group* developed moblogging (mobile blogging) to let us share photos and text from our flip phones. Moblogs caught on big in Tokyo and then spread. Eventually, personal moblogging was superseded by Twitter, Instagram, and other massive social networks we use now. Today, I am…
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Chilly sunrise
8°C First single digit morning of the season.
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Camera Roll
This is likely to be the last Camera Roll as I am trying to get off Instagram and bring my ephemeral photography to Mediatinker instead. More on that soon. In the meantime, here are photos from August 22 – October 22.
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