A few weeks ago, I saw two baby birds in my yard in the same day. The first one was in one of the flower pots in the back… Not pictured: I saw the mother fly down to it there and feed it a worm. Sweet! I took this picture from inside my garage, since […]
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Photo Friday: Baby Birds
Photo Friday: Part One
Here’s an idea for regular posts that are just a little easier to stick with than Fanart Fridays or Sketchy Sundays – Photo Fridays! Every couple of weeks on Friday, I’ll post some of my more interesting photos that I’ve taken throughout the course of my daily life. I finally got a camera that’s worth something, so […]
Great Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami
I actually have a lot of articles planned right now, all lying dormant due to a momentary dip in language-studying momentum and real-life happenings. Yet all those things pale in face of the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami which has rocked northern Japan. Last Thursday I went to bed at a decent time, for […]
Japanese Nature: Bugs
Mushi! 虫! Bugs! They’re all over the place! And the Japanese variety are just as abundant and cool. I’ve always been a fan of bugs, but sometimes people in Japan have a different level of fandom going on… Popular Mushi Japanese rhinoceros beetle If you’ve got any familiarity about Japan or even just anime, you […]
Japanese Treehouses
Are you addicted to Toxel? I am. It posted about treehouses, and there are a couple of interesting ones in Okinawa. The Beach Rock Treehouse was designed by Takashi Kobayashi. What’s best is this is the thing in which we’ll likely make first contact! Kobayashi, a leading treehouse-maker, also made this: One speculates that because […]