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 […]
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” 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 […]
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 […]
Coquina is a cheerful and intelligent canine. At Quansoo a few days ago, the wind was low and the sun was pleasantly warm. For late February, it was preposterously pleasant. […]
Notice: This post will be a digressive ramble. From time to time the ‘pile publishes a group of unrelated pictures, pictures of interest that don’t have a major unifying theme. […]
Please forgive this besotted author if the tompostpile seems to have entered an “All Puppy All the Time!” phase. Our hearts have been stolen by five pounds of little dog. […]
Love Apples. “Pomodoro”, in Italian. “Tomato” in English, and the word is similarly sounded in many other languages. Tomatoes are “Nyanya” in Swahili. They’re”Yaanyo” in Somali, and “Utamatisi” in Zulu. […]
From time to time we like to go for a walk. The gods of serendipity often look on our walks with favor, and dish up unexpected surprises. It was also […]
Here are a few just-for-pretty pictures, all taken in a minute or so, all within twenty-five feet of the door of the house. Farthest from the door is a pink […]
I woke up this morning trying to make a pun on “ammoniac”, and I didn’t have a lot of luck, despite having felt I was on the scent of something […]