It finally snowed! I've been hearing about Sendai's cold winters and snow since we got here seven months ago but it only got properly cold in the last few weeks, and just this morning we finally woke up to some proper snowfall. Enjoy the view from our balcony and...
Wow, been a while since the last update. Truth be told, I've been struggling to maintain a decent pace of photo output ever since restarting blog operations here. It certainly hasn't been a challenge getting out and taking photos (there's always something interesting...
Almost every town in Japan has it's own festival of some sort. Most of them are quite local affairs and it would be unusual for someone more than a couple towns over to know much about them. A few of them, however, are famous nationwide and Sendai's Tanabata Festival...
A few weeks ago, Mary and I wanted to go back up to Omoshiroyama and check out a flower park we'd heard about. Unfortunately, we missed the train for that by mere moments so we suddenly had a free afternoon in front of us. Fortunately, we weren't too far from a couple...
We'd been in Sendai for almost 5 months before finally getting up to the site of Sendai Castle, which is odd considering it's, at most, a 15 minute bike ride away. I think one of the reasons we kept putting it off was that we knew there wasn't a castle there. Over the...
I've been thinking lately about what kinds of things grab my eye and prompt me to raise the camera to my eye and take a shot. So often it's old and weathered things, what I've sometimes heard referred to as 'Decay Porn.' There's certainly something beautiful about...
Today we've got a few random shots from various walks and bike-rides around town.
We live in the city, which is a thing I never get sick of. It's one of those nice "little things" when you're greeted by an interesting (at least in my estimation) view every time you open the door to leave your home and go out into the world. Just wanted to share a...
Whenever I find myself in a new environment, particularly in a city, one of the first things I have the irresistible urge to do is get to the highest point I can and survey the area. There's just no better way to get a handle on how all the areas you'll see at...