One more bit about my last, recent days in Japan

These are those rape blossoms in earlier photos, that I said were in the salad

fields of these at this time of the year...the colors of the fields make my eyes tingle

One day with Naomi, we went to Nagoya, to KIKUYA I think it was called. Where Naomi found they had the most inexpensive whole wheat flour- which I wanted, but also kitchen appliances Naomi needed for her  "Organic Farmer's Kitchen" job.

It was pretty cool seeing the kitchen lesson room.

Very professional, there was a mirror over the bakers so everyone could see what they were doing

~but it also looked very detached between the bakers and the students.

"Professional" that's what it was.

Another day, with Sheon, we were out looking for Naomi's birthday presents.

She just looked so pretty. Both these daughters always look so pretty. I really am always in awe. I was taking these photos this afternoon, Sheon asked me why, it was the way she had tied her pony tail up with her own hair wrapped around it (how stylish!) and the glistening band, her shades...she just looked so PRETTY (I never looked so stylishly pretty!)

When I was visiting a friend in Nagano, with another friend, we took a walk. There was this resort right near by. In one area they had blueberry farms. I had to take a photo of this sign:

The friend I was walking with, he's VERY intelligent. Yes and his English is fatastic , but even he thought the sign was saying the blueberries were CLOSE! NOT that they had misspelled CLOSED (I movedthe sign to show him that behind the "close" was "open"!)

English is not easy. Neither is Japanese. But here below, Ischin. He's in his corner of the house, studying Japanese literature. On a little carpet I took to Japan from his Great Grandmom. (There's tatami mat otherwise, not good with wheels on the chair) Ischin writes on his computer from right to left, from the top to the bottom...his literature homework, and the book he's writing.

I missed taking a photo of his computer Japanese writing. I just thought it looked so cool.

I hadn't seen computers do that until I saw Ischin's writing (not that I can read any of it!)

And then there's our cat Sylvester, he makes himself comfortable in Ischin's lap every chance he gets!