I attempted SHUJI!

Taka broke out the new calligraphy brushes!! He was trying to teach me. Wow, it's an awkward way to "write". Well, it's really like being an artist painting. I didn't imagine it was THAT hard



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Power to the Peaceful @ Golden Gate Park September '09

Last year this time it was SUNNY and HOT!

This morning, it THUNDERED and RAINED, staying cold throughout the day.

NALU!!! She's lived on Haight Street in San Francisco for as long as I lived in Japan, since '86!!

And with her "little girl"! KAYA!!! Sheon's age!

Then we got another fantastic surprise, friends from Santa Cruz! Their big boy has played basketball with Zen for years. The Kolars~~Who we also hung out with LAST YEAR too!!!!

Fall Flower? and then the Veggies! oh, Eggs too!

One day Taka brought this home for me. He has a different sort of eye now that he's a landscaper!

There's a new Supermarket opened near us and look what they have in stock!!!

OSTRICH EGGS!! ガッチョの卵だ！！（is that the right Japanese?!)

They also have QUAIL'S EGGS!!! I wonder how Americans use them?! It's the first time I've seen them in an American Supermarket!

うずらの卵！

And "Chinese" eggplants but they look Japanese. And "TARO ROOT" in Japanese they are "SATOIMO?" What I love to use in Miso soup.

And GUCHA GUCHA Shitake! Well, perhaps they are organic and "naturally" grown so not perfectly shaped.