2014-08-15

Stone, Sand, and Fur

In August of 2014, I took the girls down to the beach. For Mary, I anticipated that she would just chill out on a towel that had been laid on warm sand to suck up some sun. Picture a beautiful dame lying out under the sun in some classic Hollywood blockbuster. That's our Mary.

Dale, on the other hand, could figure out that biting the foam of waves that had crashed upon the shoreline were not in fact actually "biteable" in any sense of the term. She just ended up ingesting seawater and sand!












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2014-08-13

二宮尊徳 記念館

Visited the Sontoku Kinenkan (Sontoku Memorial Hall) in Kayama, Odawara, Japan.
These pictures are from the rear entrance to the Ninomiya Sontoku Seika (Ninomiya, Sontoku's House).

Rear entrance to grounds of Sontoku Memorial Hall
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Rear entrance to grounds of Sontoku Memorial Hall
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Rear entrance to grounds of Sontoku Memorial Hall
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Statue of Sontoku Ninomiya at Sontoku Memorial Hall
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Statue of Sontoku Ninomiya at Sontoku Memorial Hall
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Original home of Sontoku Ninomiya (Kinjiro Ninomiya) at Sontoku Memorial Hall
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Original home of Sontoku Ninomiya (Kinjiro Ninomiya) at Sontoku Memorial Hall
[Sony HDR-GW77V]
© 2014 池谷 大星

Original home of Sontoku Ninomiya (Kinjiro Ninomiya) at Sontoku Memorial Hall
[Sony HDR-GW77V]
© 2014 池谷 大星

Original home of Sontoku Ninomiya (Kinjiro Ninomiya) at Sontoku Memorial Hall
[Sony HDR-GW77V]
© 2014 池谷 大星

Original home of Sontoku Ninomiya (Kinjiro Ninomiya) at Sontoku Memorial Hall
[Sony HDR-GW77V]
© 2014 池谷 大星

Original home of Sontoku Ninomiya (Kinjiro Ninomiya) at Sontoku Memorial Hall
[Sony HDR-GW77V]
© 2014 池谷 大星

Original home of Sontoku Ninomiya (Kinjiro Ninomiya) at Sontoku Memorial Hall
[Sony HDR-GW77V]
© 2014 池谷 大星

A chestnut (?) sitting on the base of an engraved stone next to the original home of Sontoku Ninomiya (Kinjiro Ninomiya) at Sontoku Memorial Hall
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© 2014 池谷 大星

A chestnut (?) sitting on the base of an engraved stone next to the original home of Sontoku Ninomiya (Kinjiro Ninomiya) at Sontoku Memorial Hall
[Sony HDR-GW77V]
© 2014 池谷 大星

Tree next to the engraved stone near the original home of Sontoku Ninomiya (Kinjiro Ninomiya) at Sontoku Memorial Hall
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© 2014 池谷 大星


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Duck, Flower, Trains

Took the dogs for a walk in the late afternoon today. Along our way, was able to catch a few shots of ducks, a flower along the river, and trains running between the nearby rice paddies.

 Duck in local river
[Sony Handycam HDR-GW77V] 1/60 sec., f/3.1
#duck #river #Japan

 Blossoming flower
[Sony Handycam HDR-GW77V] 1/125 sec., f/3.4
#flower #Japan

 Scarecrows in a rice paddy
[Sony Handycam HDR-GW77V] 1/350 sec., f/3.4
#scarecrow #rice #paddy #Japan

 Commuter train running between rice paddies
[Sony Handycam HDR-GW77V] 1/350 sec., f/3.7
#train #rice #paddy #Japan

Express train running between rice paddies
[Sony Handycam HDR-GW77V] 1/350 sec., f/2.6
#train #rice #paddy #Japan


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Flowers Rice Duck

Neighborhood flowers 近所の花
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Neighborhood flowers 近所の花
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Neighborhood flowers 近所の花
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Neighborhood flowers 近所の花
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Irrigation ditch. 用水堀。
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Rice paddy. 田んぼ。
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Neighborhood flowers 近所の花
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© 2014 池谷 大星 (IDCS英会話)

Scarecrows in rice paddy.
[Sony HDR-GW77V] 
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Odakyu Romance Car 小田急線の特急ロマンスカー
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Duck in river. 川のマガモ
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Neighborhood flowers 近所の花
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花 木 川 サギ

Egret サギ [Sony HDR-GW77V]
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(IDCS英会話)

Rice and tree 米と木
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Sakawa River 酒匂川
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Egret サギ
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© 2014 池谷 大星

Egret サギ
[Sony HDR-GW77V]
© 2014 池谷 大星


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