Oideyasu! Please take off your shoes.
We only moved about 300 meters, but it was total upheaval and the Internet connection was off until yesterday.
Also, I thought this was going to be the last picture ever from my Lumix, which I accidentally left on the JR train on April 9 while juggling too many bags and talking on the phone during a train change. I made reports at the train station and police station, but gave up after several days of calling the lost and found. Then, last week on the 19th, the Shichijo police called me and said it had been turned in by JR.
They didn't know why it had taken so long, but it never seemed to match up with either the JR or police reports. It seems that the reason I got it back was that I had written my name and mobile phone number directly on the camera body with a marker. So go and do that now.
Although the sky is grey in this picture, it was a cloudless day when I took it on Saturday. The haze is from "Kosa," pale yellowish sand/dirt that sometimes blows across the Japan Sea from the Gobi Desert in China. I'd never seen it anywhere near this thick. I was able to look directly at the sun at 4 p.m. It looked like a white moon behind the clouds of sand.
Framed by cherry blossoms. The sight and sound is lovely from either perspective, but the diners had to eat while a gaggle of photographers were doing exactly what I was doing. Click for 1024 x 768 image.
the cherry blossoms are at their peak in most places downtown, and just a touch behind up here.
