Facing The Tracks
I was walking into Oppama, and was waiting for a train to pass… when I noticed the backsides of the buildings that line the tracks. They were asking to have […]
Category Archives: Landscapes
Niwaki Has Stole My Heart
We arrived late in Japan, and went to bed not long aftewards. The next morning it was raining, but on rising early went for a walk anyway. The very first […]
Stone Wall, Revisited and Crossed Over
Here is one photograph for you to consider. When I pressed the shutter for this picture, I thought, “Oh, I hope I got that.” With a little cropping, I think […]
Off on the Ridge Trail
When I was young, fields and woods started at the edge of our yard, and went southwest for miles, with hardly a house to be seen. In my short lifetime […]
Early Spring Opening.
Most of the tompostpile’s March has been “Japan”. I’m not done with Japan. I never will be. Sorting through the experience, and through the thousands of photos taken, will take […]
Sakura!
“Sakura” was one of the first Japanese words I ever learned. Sakura = cherry blossom. Here’s a character for “sakura”. I wish I knew about ten thousand more ideograms. In […]
Through the Hills at Nightfall
We left Mount Fuji behind us, and continued into the darkening land. Details reduced in the dimming light, and shapes took over. As we went through this place I’d […]
Mount Fuji
Mount Fuji, emblem of Japan. You can’t always see Mount Fuji. But we’ve been lucky enough to have some moments when we could see her. Fuji was kind enough to […]
Japan: Things Seen
I’m feeling a tad schizophrenic, experiencing this place I’ve never been to before. There is a jagged line separating and uniting my known home culture and this other culture on […]
First Walk.
To travel twenty-four hours with little sleep makes a person dead-tired. I may even have been asleep before my body touched the mattress. The night’s sleep was an expedition to […]
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