While traveling to investigate long term apartment options here in France I am taking the opportunity to annotate some of my photographs from the past month and a half. You may have seen some of these as I posted many pictures on the fly while we stayed in Japan, but a second look won't hurt us if that's what happens, and a little context for the pictures may give them some new life.
For a few old trees in Japan they would build these elaborate support structures of wood and mostly bamboo, maybe all bamboo? that all reminded me of tree houses.
I really liked them.
This is one of those trees along the river of the famous tea growing region of Uji, technically part of Kyoto but also part of another world, which happens a lot in Kyoto.
On the subject of trees, this is one of my ink drawing versions of a tree, I think from a park near where we lived in Kyoto. The Kyoto trees, while more minimal in number, were some of the best trees I've ever seen and I was shocked and delighted to find that they were like bonsai trees, only full sized.
I hope that makes sense.
This picture is in Tokyo. Very Tokyo. And it looks gritty, but it was also probably taken from high up in a very shiny chain clothing store's window. We lived in a quiet, wonderful house on a river in a park like setting, and we probably never travelled more than a few miles from our house in our whole week in Tokyo.
This a very altered picture of the garden of a small museum that had a show of ceramics that was enormously popular with my people. For some reason it makes me remember how hot it was back then in Kyoto. This is the lovely Arashiyama area, famous for its bamboo groves.
That's me! Reflected in a building front in Kyoto, around the corner from where we lived. I was probably hanging out in front of the grocery store seconds from our little house. We shopped at that store a lot, and it played two kinds of music, either interesting jazz or batshit crazy, mildly grating, weird Japanese pop that I doubt was actually popular.
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