Saturday, May 5, 2012

Dripping

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This year I tried to get a "soft, dreamy" style to my sakura pictures this year, but I feel I am still missing something.

I think that I could change the tone a little more, but I like this one though.

Friday, May 4, 2012

Spiderweb

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While waiting for the bus, I almost ran into this. No sign of the inhabitant who lives here.

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

The Local Education Building

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I call it an education building, because I cannot remember the exact name of it. It is a place where teachers come together to have meetings.

Anyway, whenever I walk to work, I always stop by.

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Sun on a Wire

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On this day the kosa was blowing around and the sky was grey except for where the sun was setting. The blowing sand made it so that the sun looked like a ball floating in the sky.

Monday, April 30, 2012

JR Tokoku Honsen

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From Wikipedia:
The Tōhoku Main Line (東北本線 Tōhoku-honsen?) is a 575.7 km long railway line in Japan operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). Although officially the line starts from Tokyo Station in Chiyoda, Tokyo, most of the long-distance trains actually begin at Ueno Station in Taitō, Tokyo, and pass through such cities as Saitama, Utsunomiya, Fukushima, and Sendai, before reaching the end of the line in Morioka. The Tōhoku Main Line runs mostly parallel to the Tōhoku Shinkansen.

The 159.9 km long portion of the line between Ueno Station and Kuroiso Station in Nasushiobara, Tochigi is often referred to as the (JR) Utsunomiya Line. A portion of the Tōhoku Main Line is also shared with the Keihin-Tōhoku Line (29.6 km between Tokyo Station and Ōmiya Station in Ōmiya-ku, Saitama) and the Saikyō Line (18.0 km between Akabane Station in the Kita ward of Tokyo and Ōmiya Station).

It says it is often referred to as the Utsunoiya Line, but it is officially referred to that on all the signs and platforms in Ueno.

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Just Blooming

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Even though there were only a few blossoms that had just started opening, this was my favorite tree at Shiogama Shrine.