water filled fields..

morning hot spring..

up the mountain and far away...

View before class..

from a car park in tendo city, mount gassan in the distance, pink skies, a few seconds of beauty..

Earthquake repercussions...

One of my favourite shops closing due to many of it's suppliers of organic produced being situation in the tsunami or nuclear effected areas.  It was a sad last shop, the shop keeper always greets me by name, we chat, so friendly, now she is having to look for new work....  Although I heard priority for jobs is being given to those who lost everything in the disaster.  Hard times for many people.

found a patch..

of purple flowers, hundreds and hundreds of these dainty blossoms covering a forest floor, no bigger than the tip of my thumb..aahhhh

golden week soba

delicious! buckwheat noodles and tempura, specialities here in yamagata. not a fan of raw eggs so took th teeny egg home and had a mini fried egg. . . too cute

mountain vegetables..

from friends in fukushima, delicious ; )