Cherry Blossom Adventures

I am not very consistent in participating in wordless wednesday but when you get home at 9:50pm, want to sleep but realize you haven`t yet blogged when you have said you will blog every day for the month well a blog thingy like wordless wednesday really helps you out.

Taken while crossing the bridge near my house to get to the train station. I live near the bay so this creek`s water levels really depend on the tide…

By the way, my wish came true, and I convinced my family to all chip in and get me a DSLR for Christmas. I am going to go with the Olympus E-520 I think as I have been a loyal Olympus user for years and have always loved the cameras. I originally thought the E-420 but changed my mind! So perhaps after Christmas I will become a more regular partcipator in Wordless Wednesday.

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Kissing guinea pigs.

Along with missing Japan a lot lately I have found myself missing my old students a lot also. I miss the kids so much and by the time I go back to Japan, while I won`t be returning to teach at that school I don`t think, I am definitely going to have to go for a visit. A lot of my kiddies will have moved on by then though….

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Yes it is a miniature horse! Family friends of ours have a large block of land and they keep him as a pet along with three dogs ( 2 of which belong to their son who is currently in Canada so they are playing grandparents) and possibly some chickens (Although didn`t go out the back while i was there the other day)

Over the years they have kept wallabies, a normal horse, a sheep (Gordy!!- who came inside and ran up in down the hallway bumping into things!), geese, lots of dogs, chickens, ducks, turtles, fish and I am sure an assortment of other animals!

Shun has never met them but I am thinking we may take Abbey out there to visit on Sunday- It will be her first time to meet a miniature horse! (Shun`s too!)

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Benay on her wedding day…

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Ok I haven`t participated in this much of late for a couple of reasons- one I am not taking nearly as many photos as I was when I was living in Tokyo and two I can never be very wordless which I guess in someways defeats the purpose of this exercise but anyway since I am joining in Nablopomo this month I thought I should give it another go (although we all know the wordless part was never going to happen!)

My Wordless Wednesday picture for this week:

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Oh and if anyone missed my post two days ago where I was asking for some good music please visit the post here and give me some suggestions! I need some new music suggestions!

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Taken in Okinawa in 2006.

I wish I was here. It is starting to get a little cool in Brisbane now, especially in the mornings. Two winters in one year hardly seems fair (Although 2 summers next year will probably be worse).

Today was not a good day. I had a car crash, technically my first one. I ran up the back of someone, and it was my fault and I have a sore head. But their was almost no damage to the other car, and fairly easy to fix damage on mine. In fact just some minor panel beating work…I was just a bit more in shook than anything else. Hope everyone else had a day that was better than mine…..In other news I got a haircut, and it looks cool (I think!)

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Japanese Azalea (????in Nara: Isuien Garden

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A sunset in April in Tokyo, Yoyogi park

Only on my fifth week of this and already finding it hard to decide what to put up. Photos of me and my friends don`t seem appropriate but they seem to be all I have! Need to get out more and take my camera and go shooting! Maybe tomorrow along the small river that runs by Shumpei`s parents place!

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Can`t find my USB camera cord in the mess in our apartment at the moment….It is probably in a box somewhere?!

So here are three photos from my flickr account that people have favourited the most….all from the same day, same camera, taken in Harajuku! They are not the best photos I have ever taken or anything but for some reason `Harajuku girls` are popular I guess!!! They were all taken two years ago!!

Happy Wordless Wednesday everyone!!!

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Another week, another wordless Wednesday. Check out here for all the other people participating…

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