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....

what some people...

do to their cars.. sometimes see these around and they never fail to amaze me....

sky on fire..

under the expressway..

more mountain and moon..

flowers like fire..

on the way home..

skyline..

anoter old photo...

taken this time the year before last, again from the west side of the city..

lotus from ...

last year i think, just wanted to include it, seeing as i haven't had too much time to go lotus spotting this summer...

mountain in the mirror..

goya....

growing up the side of our house ; ) it's a very bitter vegetable, forget which family, cucumber...corgette? tastey once you have acquired the taste for bitter!

back to work

and back to my computer..

first day back to the

beach! yay! nice waves to welcome me home...

back to yamagata!