Tonight Lia finally succumbed to my haranguing and asked me to set her up with a blog. As you’d expect, it’s much nicer to look at than mine. It’s not working completely smoothly yet, but give it a bit of time. And don’t let that stop you from giving it a read.
Monthly Archives: June 2005
System Maintenance: Disappearing Images
I’m messing around with file names and locations. Things should return to normal shortly. Why am I doing this? Because I finally decided to put a copyright notice on all the files, and I figured that while I’m at it I’ll organize the images folder so that things are easier for me to find.
Regular programming will resume tomorrow.
UPDATE (11pm, 9 June 2005): I finished reorganizing the image files earlier this evening, then my server went down for a few hours. Things should be back to normal now.
Torii At Miyajima
Here’s another short photo post, so that I can attempt to catch up on my sleep. Miyajima, an island near Hiroshima in the Seto Inland Sea, is famous for its “floating” torii.
Tea Time
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned cycling through southeastern Fukuoka. Tonight I’m a bit pressed for time so I’m only posting one photo and what I foresee as very little commentary.
13 Views Near Yatsurugi Shrine
Yatsurugi Shrine is in Miyata Town (宮田町), east of Kitakyushu. I ended up there completely by accident, on the tail end of a bike trip on May 5, 2005. I didn’t have a very good map with me, and had followed a couple of signs pointing towards a hiking area, and then got distracted by a series of torii. What follows are some photos in and around the shrine grounds. There are a couple of standard photos of the shrine, and then a lot of pictures of the pink flowers and greenery that took me completely by surprise.
Kimonophile Given Silk Jacket In Payment for International Intercourse
A 10- or 15-minute walk from our apartment is a big park called Yomiya Park. It has the usual park things, including trees, walking paths, large open areas, assorted playgrounds. As well as a kyudo—traditional Japanese archery— range, and a couple of ponds filled with irises. The irises are in bloom, and this weekend was the annual Tobata Iris Festival.
Iron Chef Sighting at 7-11
A while back I wrote about Ogopogo. A few days later, I encountered something Ogopogo-like while out and about. Around the same time—on April 14th—I wrote about my assorted Iron Chef encounters. And the following week Lia told me that she’d seen a poster of the original Iron Chef Japanese, Rokusaburo Michiba, in the window of our neighbourhood 7-11 store.
At the time, I didn’t have a chance to take a photo and by the time I did, the poster was gone. Luckily, the poster reappeared and I was able to hurriedly take some pictures of it on the morning of May 3rd as we began a journey to Hikosan in southeast Fukuoka.
Not a Street Sign, But Just as Fun
Here’s another one from archives of the Department of Questionable Signs. Not a road sign, though. And not my misinterpretation, either.
Yield to Abductions
Here’s another short post about another misinterpreted street sign. Those of you waiting for the next installment of Amy in Japanland will have to wait as she’s disappeared into the wilds of Korea.
Warning: Dangerous Sign Interpretation
I had a completely split-up, interrupt-driven day, filled with schedule changes and miscommunications. But you probably don’t want to hear about it, or the fabulous time I had with Lia this evening, preparing our UK visa applications. Plus, I don’t want to relive the experiences by writing about them further. Consider yourselves lucky that I’ve instead chosen to start posting photos of my interpretations of road signs.