Annapolis

Spent the day with family in Annapolis. A good time was had by all.

Nanzen-ji

Hooray! We had seen "Lost in Translation" before but it was on again tonight and we just caught the last half hour or so. It was fun to see places we'd been to in the movie. The best part was finding out the name of one of the shrines we visited in Kyoto, Nanzen-ji. As we had wandered there on our own, minus my mother, it had remained nameless. Beautiful and quite memorable in any case.

Beautiful

Kyoto, Japan.

- Photo courtesy of my father.

Big Gate

Takayama.

Mother

Love this. Mother and Father had gone off on their own around Tokyo, and always game for a fun photo, Mother obligingly posed. The cutout is of a storyteller. The number of cushions is probably mostly to make it easy to photograph, but I think Mother said it also means that this is a very good storyteller indeed.

Photo courtesy of my father.

Delicious

We miss Japan.

Small restaurant in Tokyo. - Photo courtesy of my father.

Keanu hearts sushi

Sushi restaurant, Japantown, San Francisco.

Lofty aspirations

Fearless traveler keeping away from the edge, Machu Picchu, 2006.

Argh

A rough day for the Birds.

Llamas

.Llamas on the terraces of Machu Picchu, before the morning sun burned away all the mist. 2006.

LIVE

and also

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Blue hydrangea

Next to pink, blue hydrangeas are the best.

From the garden in front of our cottage at K'uychi Rumi, Urubamba, Peru, 2006.

Something you should know

There is something you should know before you come to dinner at our house. .. not what's for dinner, but who owns the table. It varies by day. Brown tabby also available.

Happy 100th Birthday, Grandma!

What a great day of family and celebration.

Grandma, 100 years old today!

Siblings with the birthday girl.

Grandma with her children...

... and her grandchildren...

... and her great-grandchildren... plus one of her two great-great-grandchildren.

Five generations.

My family, minus two (we love you in absentia).

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How does your garden grow?

Pretty, but gone. Heat wave. Rats.