Here and There Japan

    The green plants are taro. Check this post for purple shiso .

Telephone lines and kiwi vines. Click on the picture to enlarge it. That's a stop sign in the bottom left hand corner. Check this post...

Our vegetable stand man pulled some onions and tied them together to sell. That dark plastic thing is a shower stool. Some people use them ...

There's more construction on our street. This time they put down this mat to show us where to walk. Our vegetable stand man returned f...

Can you see him? Click to enlarge the picture.

Watching clouds from the roof garden. There's that spot again. I've got to get the camera cleaned! This is a baby praying mantis....

This is just one of the many styles of gates in our neighborhood. To go to the front door you would open the right side. First, though, you...

There are a lot of raspberries this year! This plant has been coming up in our garden every year for ten years. They don't all ripen a...

Click to enlarge the picture. Believe it or not, this will shed its outer shell and become a shiny round ladybug. Click here to see more a...

Most garden walls in our area are made of cinder blocks. This wall has vents at the top and slits near the bottom. They allow air to flow f...

This is the field behind our house. This farmer put straw mats between his rows of corn. Click on the picture to see what is in his truck. ...

Here's our vegetable stand man working in his onion field. The corn on this side of that path (in the foreground) belongs to another fa...

It will be the rainy season soon. May is usually really hot, but it's been cool this year. We've had rain from time to time, too. T...

This is the new bicycle parking lot in our neighborhood. The train station is around the corner and down the street. As you can see motorcy...

The new parking lot has racks for the bicycles. Click on the photos to enlarge them. There are instructions posted.

This field is around the corner from our train station. I was shocked to see it like this. It was covered with plywood. I walked further a...

Suzanne Kamata (left), author of Playing for Papa was presented with a plaque from SCBWI Tokyo regional advisor Holly Thompson (right). ...