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Spring in #Orangeville! Snowdrops blooming in front yard, & crocus & Veronica persica #phenology
Quebec maple syrup ($12+ 250mL) LiquorLand Higashi-Tokorozawa nr Tokyo. Also 125mL for $6+ in Yaoko. Home soon!
@CreativeSTAR For another 20 hours … Three glorious wks w G&J as private guides around Tokyo & Hokkaido
Bought this in Akihabara: “The time of when is also active and aiding people with a dream is continued.”
Weekly update of manga in Akihabara, Tokyo:…glad to return to relative sanity of excellent ramen in Kichijoji
Plum blossoms outside Shizen Kyoiku-en, Meguro, Tokyo. Sakura (cherry) slowly also flushing out in pink. Lovely!
By myself in Meguro, Tokyo. Most amazing 2m diam Phalenopsis orchid selling for ¥300,000 ($3000) in Meguro. WOW!
Best earthquake exhibit in Tokyo Museum Emerging SciTech (not shown…) is 3D image outlining tectonic boundaries
@Astro_Soichi photo in ISS exhibit,Tokyo Museum Emerging Sci&Tech in Odaiba. I’m taken w his tweeted ISS photos!
Tokyo Hands, remarkable DIY store in Shibuya, w 3 million different items. I resisted faux-chocolate iPhone cases…
Shibuya… Had to turn my hearing aids down… 1 manifestation: remarkably spare BAPE store (20000¥ for sweatshirt)
Hachiko — google the story … A dog-lover’s dream! Strange how a dog makes the Shibuya Crossing somehow ‘human’!
Busy but not horribly packed train out from Tokyo as night falls. Not bad—but wouldn't want to do this daily…
Back ‘home’ in Higashi-Tokorazawa, celebrating with another excellent curry: mutton sag, Bombay tomato, huge naan
Fine sentiment, in Japanese exhortational style: “Nature is everyone’s one. Let’s value nature by everyone.”
Surprise: pastel chewy mini donuts beside yakitori (deep-fried octopus balls) in dessert buffet in Hokkaido
2 gaijin in this set of Ainu dancers in Hokkaido! One teaches J'pnese students abt Ainu; other is morris dancer
Fine day in Ainu museums in Nibutani, Hokkaido! This elderly carver engraved our name and his on back of platter
Still Japan, tho unexpected! Hokkaido onsen town, Lake Shikotsu. Mt Fuppushi-dake volcano. Lots of snow!
Japan styling: men's socks (Hokkaido)
More Japan styling, this time on one of the myriad of commuter trains. Gender? …
Back-alley in Nakano, Tokyo, bustling with shoppers.
Hanami (cherry-blossom) season in Higashi-Tokorozawa nr Tokyo. Easy to understand why it's so popular!
A day of a lot of time waiting in Tokyo, good visit w Mariko, then back to HigTok for curry and karaoke!

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Mark Whitcombe

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husband, father, retired outdoor education teacher, botanist, Type 2 Diabetes, ... not quite the angel taborer

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