Diary: specs, tea, cards & usual annotations from the fog
Everything old was new again / same as it ever was, same as it never was. Various annotations Nov. 25~27ish
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Field Notes, Japan Life/Travel
Field notes: Kurashiki Jazz Street day-out snaps
Field Notes (brief) Kurashiki day-out during the “Jazz Street“ event (first in-person since 2019) with little pop-up concerts happening in
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Ikebana & Bento / brief notes from a day out {now with snapshots!}
Diary notes: Rode bus into city with my 2 darlings to see an ikebana exhibit (Ryoko’s ceremony teacher had a
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Postbox poem needs a repaint (for impending tourist visitors to Japan)
Looks like this poem on a postbox at Rural Caprine (goat) Farm is going to need a bit of painting
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Field Notes, Libraries / Museums / Archives, Postboxes
Postbox / 4 views: Yumeji Takehisa home & atelier (for #postboxsaturday)
For #postboxsaturday comes 4 views of Japan pillar style at (one of several) museums for famed artist (painter, print maker,
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Kinfolk + Pals
Outing: bus to passport snaps, jazz & tea
The three of us, on the road by wonderful, air conditioned, Wi-Fi enabled, Uno bus service into Okayama city for
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Japan “opens up”* / A few things about #Okayama
* to tourism (not everywhere, not everyone blah blah blah) If you are curious, Japan is reopening to independent tourism
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Exhibit: Shimizu Hian Shodo Calligraphy in Ukan, Okayama, 2021
In April 2021, we visited a shodo calligraphy exhibition at a saké distillery with special floral arrangements made by Ryoko’s
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Postboxes + Post Office: Katsuyama, Okayama, Japan (for #postboxsaturday)
“Just hanging out by a beautiful pillar #Postbox with a fantastic noren curtain in historic Katsuyama, Okayama, Japan for #PostboxSaturday
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Healing Ramble
Healing Ramble: Brief notes from Okayama Uni. Research Hospital #MECFS clinic
Brief notes from #MECFS specialty clinic at Okayama University Hospital Sept. 2, 2022. (Originally published via @uncleweed Twitter) – intro in
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Healing: (un-detailed) back to doc (& next steps)
Thanks to each of you again for your kind words and thoughts and thinking about me re: #daveo52 / 8-16
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Postboxes (and related items): mostly in/around Okayama, Japan
As will no doubt be *not shocking* I have quite-literally hundreds of photos of post boxes around the world, as
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Collection: (Pay)phones (vol. 8) – junk shop in Okayama + typewriter
In the various collections of payphones (as well as hotel house phones and other related analogue communication tools) throughout this
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Accidental Palaeontology (& related accruements)
Maybe you’ve seen my variety of elementary school science projects which were more focussed on “social sciences” like anthropology, archeology,
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Improving Campsite
Kura barn / storehouse turned studio, consulate and lounge (round-up/catch-all)
Summer 2021: Glorious Kura barn 125+ yrs old got a century retrofit with heat-pump/cooler, electric upgrade with breaker box &
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Spontaneous Snaps
Snaps: Scenes from Momotaro Okayama Airport
We dropped off a friend during Golden Week 2022 at Momotaro Okayama Airport which has a great viewing platform for
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