Went to visit Ryoko’s grandmother, obviously Ichiro’s great grandmother, 92 years young, living at an elders home. First time we were able to go up into her room, previous visits were through the window for novel virus precautions.
Afterwards, we went to an interesting café next to it which had lovely tea coffee and cakes but also features various dog runs for agility training (is that what you call it with the dogs went through a special course?), a campground (really a place to park a camping van when coming to do said dog training/tournaments/events/workshops and, inside all sorts of fantastic dog accessories (including a grateful dead dog frisbee), and inexplicably, a beautiful upright bass.
Inside great grandmother Kazuko’s room is an assembled is an assembled puzzle I made for each of the Fujii ladies (my mother-in-law’s family name is Fujii) from a photo I snapped of her, her sister, the sister’s daughter and in turn, her daughters and of course my darling wife – who are all multi-talented, independent-minded, active and brilliant women.
I managed to capture all of them on a drizzly day with the matriarch behind the glass window and… one adorable little boy in amongst the splendor of the remarkable women. And, in this instance, they all seem to have matching short and sensible haircuts and mostly wearing spectacles. I just love the matchiness of it all.
This visit I took an assortment of photos from our BC trip, especially ones showing Ryoko in her kimono enjoying and/or serving tea. Much of my wife’s refinement in such matters came from spending time with her grandmother in her youth going for tea, learning the nuance of ceramics and sweets alike.
Of course, I took a tripod and got some timer photos with all of us together but gonna hold back on sharing those for the time being at least. The other ladies at the group home were so surprised to see me and so happy to see the effervescent and very energetic three year-old.
The staff knows his name which makes me laugh because everywhere we go, everyone already knows Ichiro and he’s *very nonplussed* about it all.
charming