More glimpses of unfamiliar Japan

  I begin the second leg of my walk up the Gonokawa River to its source from my home. I live on the other bank to the one I am walking up. M...

Way back, many years ago, when I started this blog I did a series of posts titled Typical Japanese landscape. Of course they were quite ...

Cherry blossom viewing, Ohanami in Japanese, has been going on recently, though with somewhat less of the usual drunken revelry found in...

The noise of my neighbours in the forest behind my house yesterday has prompted me to post some photos of some of them. earlier posts ha...

It had been a very, very mild winter so far. I'd already bought seed potatoes for planting. Then winter came. We get a fair amount...

Last weekend was my villages annual Autumn Matsuri. The rice has been harvested, time to kick back and party. Though our village, like...

Most evenings I hear the badger snuffling around just outside my house, so when I saw it yesterday afternoon I got out there with my ...

Time for the obligatory cherry blossom pictures...... I don't have to go far for Ohanami..... after we moved into our house we p...

They're back!!! We hadn't seen hide nor hair of the monkeys for about three months, then last week I was sitting at my computer an...

Skinks are skittish creatures as well as being fast movers, but this guy got trapped inside a plastic bucket so I was able to photograph him...

The sun hits my riverside garden around 6am so I like to get as much work done in it before that. In the countryside the PA plays its little...

Garden This is my main garden, about 100 meters from the house. We pay 1,000yen a month for it including a parking space. It was construc...