autumn taste of..

chrysanthemum, soy beans and some kind of green leafy vegetable, with vinegar and soy sauce, absolutely delicisous!!

off he goes..

heron relaxing after brekky...

sunshine..

harvesting rice..

harajuku style 3..

harajuku style 2

harajuku style 1..

harajuku is where the 'young and fashionable' especially around high school age hang out at the weekends, said to some to be the origin of many a new fashion..

shinjuku...

sendai shutter..

thought it was a very pretty way to liven up a dull shop shutter...

harvest time..

drying out the rice stalks after cutting..

struck by lightening..

but still alive, and you can just see all the blackened burnt insides of the tree..

beautiful day...

beautiful tree...

misty night..

nightime skyline...

a day for weddings...

fishing boats coming in..

firey flower..

omikoshi...

Each neighbourhood has it's own mini festival for the moving of the shrine.....i was quite surprised the first time i heard/saw it coming past my house....

wonder what ....

kind of flower this is...?

moutain in mirror

river really was....

strong on this day...pretty impressive.

more stormy waters...

usually a lovely...

calm river with kids playing in it and bbq's along the side, but today's typhoon made it like a rough ocean, the power was amazing... these 'waves' were about a metre high i'd guess..

moth..

i just ...

love fire dancers..

this guy was..

good...

one year todaｙ ★

last night.....

of the Zao festival.....finishing off with fire dancers and african drums, very nice...

happy travels party....