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Anyone have some images of the Cherry Blossoms around the Tidal Basin in DC? I grew up in the area and have not been back to DC in 29 years. Oops, I forgot we have the Internet these days.
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Cloud forest caterpillar in Costa Rica. It's about TEN inches in length, and you do NOT want to touch the fuzzy parts. The fuzzy bits won't kill you, but they'll make you want to chop off your hand. It's a long lasting severe sting.
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Cloud forest caterpillar in Costa Rica. It's about TEN inches in length, and you do NOT want to touch the fuzzy parts. The fuzzy bits won't kill you, but they'll make you want to chop off your hand. It's a long lasting severe sting.
That's a good reason to travel with bug spray
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Your doing or did the PACRIM island countries vacation?
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Something like that. Ship, train and miles and miles of walking. (10 miles alone one day in Kyoto that included the 1000 Tori Gate climb to the top of Mt. Inari,)
I see in posting the Kyoto views I failed to include ones with Sakura. Here are two from the trek up the Tori Gate lined Inari Mountain with a view above Inari Shrine looking down on Kyoto as well as several from Kiyomizu Shrine:
Adding a few more in conjunction with the Emperor Akihito's abdication today as he steps down as the Emperor of Japan. Of particular note contrast the photo I took of then Prince Akihito 50 years ago when he visited Kanazawa's Kenrokukoen with the TV screen shot photos of him visiting the sacred Shinto Shrines in the equally secluded forest located in Ise Japan just a few weeks ago.
First here are several photos I took back in 1968 and 1969 which I will then contrast with photos taken this past month at the same locations. The two locations are first, steps leading up to the botanical gardens near the Fukuoka Zoo's entrance in Fukuoka Japan and second, photos I took (and which were taken of me) in Kanazawa Japan's Kenrokukoen, one of Japan's three most famous gardens.
Now here are my photos taken at the same locations in Fukuoka and Kanazawa last month, five decades later:
And these are photos of relevance to the Emperor Akihito stepping down today. The first is a repeat of one I took of Akihito when he was still a Prince. In the photo situated in Kanazawa's Kenrokukoen he is seen waving in my direction. Compare it to the Japanese TV screen shot taken in conjunction with his present abdication wherein he is also seen waving. The TV screen shots were of Akihito as Japan's Emperor as he traveled to Ise Japan to visit his family's ancestral shrine there to report to the Sun Goddess Diety from whom all of Japan's Emperors are claimed to have been descended.
And here is the Emperor's family shrine in Ise Japan as I photographed it last month compared to the same location as seen in the Japanese TV screen shots taken on the subsequent visit by the Emperor:
Added are additional views within the aforementioned Kenrokukoen located in Kanazawa, Japan from my recent revisit there after the some five decades following my having photographed the now abdicated Emperor Akihito there. Kenrokukoen is universally recognized as one of Japan's three most beautiful gardens.
Note, in the fifth photo below the fountain seen on the right is the oldest fountain in Japan and the water gushes upward naturally from water pressure created by the location of another small lake at a higher level in the garden. The garden itself was first created as a part of the Kanazawa Castle grounds in the 1600s by the ruling Maeda clan represented by the warlord depicted in the below pictured statue.
OK, it is now officially Friday (at least on the East Coast).
The below photos were taken a few weeks ago at Dazaifu Tenmangu, a Shinto Shrine and grounds on the outskirts of Fukuoka Japan. Students and parents from across Japan come here to pray for scholastic success as the shrine was built over the grave of a gifted student who had been exiled by the royal family to distant Kyushu from Kyoto. Among his accomplishments were poems dedicated to plum trees with as legend has it the plum tree inside the shrine having flown from Kyoto to be reunited with him. Today there are over 600 plum trees on the grounds.
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When Mayhew wasn’t acting he was an active philanthropist. He worked with groups like the 501st Legion, Wounded Warriors and Make-A-Wish. He also established the Peter Mayhew Foundation, which is now set to be run by his wife Angie Mayhew.
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Perpetual cherry blossom display. Can be used in the event of a power failure and no internet.
Buy the print and tape to the computer screen when the power goes out.
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Cloud forest caterpillar in Costa Rica. It's about TEN inches in length, and you do NOT want to touch the fuzzy parts. The fuzzy bits won't kill you, but they'll make you want to chop off your hand. It's a long lasting severe sting.
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That's a good reason to travel with bug spray
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Adding a few more in conjunction with the Emperor Akihito's abdication today as he steps down as the Emperor of Japan. Of particular note contrast the photo I took of then Prince Akihito 50 years ago when he visited Kanazawa's Kenrokukoen with the TV screen shot photos of him visiting the sacred Shinto Shrines in the equally secluded forest located in Ise Japan just a few weeks ago.
First here are several photos I took back in 1968 and 1969 which I will then contrast with photos taken this past month at the same locations. The two locations are first, steps leading up to the botanical gardens near the Fukuoka Zoo's entrance in Fukuoka Japan and second, photos I took (and which were taken of me) in Kanazawa Japan's Kenrokukoen, one of Japan's three most famous gardens.
Now here are my photos taken at the same locations in Fukuoka and Kanazawa last month, five decades later:
And these are photos of relevance to the Emperor Akihito stepping down today. The first is a repeat of one I took of Akihito when he was still a Prince. In the photo situated in Kanazawa's Kenrokukoen he is seen waving in my direction. Compare it to the Japanese TV screen shot taken in conjunction with his present abdication wherein he is also seen waving. The TV screen shots were of Akihito as Japan's Emperor as he traveled to Ise Japan to visit his family's ancestral shrine there to report to the Sun Goddess Diety from whom all of Japan's Emperors are claimed to have been descended.
And here is the Emperor's family shrine in Ise Japan as I photographed it last month compared to the same location as seen in the Japanese TV screen shots taken on the subsequent visit by the Emperor:
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Added are additional views within the aforementioned Kenrokukoen located in Kanazawa, Japan from my recent revisit there after the some five decades following my having photographed the now abdicated Emperor Akihito there. Kenrokukoen is universally recognized as one of Japan's three most beautiful gardens.
Note, in the fifth photo below the fountain seen on the right is the oldest fountain in Japan and the water gushes upward naturally from water pressure created by the location of another small lake at a higher level in the garden. The garden itself was first created as a part of the Kanazawa Castle grounds in the 1600s by the ruling Maeda clan represented by the warlord depicted in the below pictured statue.
The iconic two-legged stone lantern that has become the symbol of Kanazawa Japan:
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Even on confectionary:
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OK, it is now officially Friday (at least on the East Coast).
The below photos were taken a few weeks ago at Dazaifu Tenmangu, a Shinto Shrine and grounds on the outskirts of Fukuoka Japan. Students and parents from across Japan come here to pray for scholastic success as the shrine was built over the grave of a gifted student who had been exiled by the royal family to distant Kyushu from Kyoto. Among his accomplishments were poems dedicated to plum trees with as legend has it the plum tree inside the shrine having flown from Kyoto to be reunited with him. Today there are over 600 plum trees on the grounds.
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Actor Peter Mayhew, Chewbacca from ‘Star Wars,’ dies at 74
At his tallest, Mayhew stood at 7 feet 3 inches, although his height was not due to gigantism.
When Mayhew wasn’t acting he was an active philanthropist. He worked with groups like the 501st Legion, Wounded Warriors and Make-A-Wish. He also established the Peter Mayhew Foundation, which is now set to be run by his wife Angie Mayhew.
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Great pictures this week.
I love the Japanese pictures!
Happy Friday!
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Some green tourmaline, goshenite, aquamarine and a piece of quartz toned by some iron oxide. Some of my finds at the Oceanview mine in Pala, CA. You can sift through their tailings pile, and you can find some neat things. A lot of people found some big chunks of aquamarine... not me, though. Only small ones. I'm thinking of buying some tools and upping my prospecting game and taking on the more challenging sites at the Pala Chief mine.
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Here’s a new purchase 1878-7TF (Dual-Sided Toner) Morgan Dollar for your viewing pleasure!😁
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That's the kind of Morgan toning I like, nice piece.
Is there an Owl too? I was talking about the four legged creature. That taste really good
Mesmerizing colors reminds me of the skies in Flash Gordon.
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Looks like the one in my garage!
Looks like a DIY job.
Just how many hot water heaters does/did that place have?
Blue painter’s tape is covering what?
Can’t see it in the pic but is there a main breaker?
Having all kinds of fun in that breaker box.
Souv. de la Malmaison; a classic Bourbon Rose I grew in a large pot.
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