This morning when I woke up to gentle sunlight and blue sky coming through my window, while everyone else was still sleeping in, I started A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers 📚
Day 14: 📷 cactus (@christopherchelpka) #mbApr
Last Xmas my daughter gave me this little felt cactus to put on my desk so I would have some green around me that wouldn’t die 🌵
(In the background is a photo of my daughters in their kimono 👘🥹)
Day 13: 📷 page (@robj) #mbApr
After finishing off a 250 page notebook, I recently bought a new Leuchtturm1917 in Stone Blue. Also got a new Uni Jetstream Edge in a matching colour. More on journaling: chadkohalyk.com/2021/02/0…
What a day! 🌞 Sports Day ⚽️🏅🏃♀️ for the school so I was out in the sun all day photographing the kids. OD’ing on Vitamin D right now. Need a shower and a lie down.
Day 12: 📷 magic (@DaveyCraney) #mbApr
The cherry blossoms are almost done 🌸! Here are fortune slips that must not have told of the best future, so were left behind.
Check the Replies to see a gallery of other charms and magical items I captured on today’s ride.
#桜 #Japan
Day 11: 📷 sky (@jedda) #mbApr
Today was cloudy, so I decided to go shoot the Umeda Sky Building in the dark for you. Of course, I had to get some sakura 🌸 in there. Check the replies for some closeups of the hole that goes to the 40th F roof and daytime shots
During my walk today… a school that pretty much every child wants to go to #osaka #anime #esports
Day 10: 📷 train (@starrwulfe) #mbApr
The Nintendo Train through the cherry blossoms 🍄👸🚋🌸
It has been mostly cloudy, but I have gotten a few 🌸 cherry blossom shots and put them up on Flickr if you wanna have a quick scroll www.flickr.com/photos/sa…
Day 9: 📷 crispy (@rom) #mbApr
Karaage (fried chicken) with some sakurai mochi and hanami dango 🌸🍡
It is SOOOO windy out! 🌬 There are cherry blossom 🌸 petals on my balcony I am on the 12th floor!
Day 8: 📷 prevention (@anniegreens) #mbApr
“Memory Park” is full of cherry blossom trees and a hanami spot for families in my neighbourhood. 🌸 Lovely, no? But notice the low building just beyond the trees? On the other side of the cranes? That is the Osaka Detention Center. Prevention.
Deb Chachra (@debcha@mastodon.social / @debcha.bsky.social) on CBC Spark. She hits a bunch of the main points of her great book “How Infrastructure Works”. Worth a listen!
Day 7: 📷 wellbeing (@ridwan)
It’s been ☁️ overcast ☁️ every day during this cherry blossom season 😞 but finally we got some blue sky. An old friend from Kelowna who lives in Fukuoka came up to 🚅 Osaka to visit us for the day.
Being together 👫
Under the sakura trees 🌸
We share well-being 🥰
Started listening to Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky 📚
Day 6: 📷 windy (@Miraz)
I went out to try and capture something for today’s @challenges theme, but it is just not that windy 😫 Staying within my self-imposed cherry blossom rule, I got a shot of a single petal in a pond rippled with a gentle wind. 🌬🌊🌸
Day 5: 📷 serene (@chiawase)
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Just sat and watched this scene for a while this afternoon. Many feels from real life … IYKYK
Day 4: 📷 foliage (@pratik)
Although we are only at something like 60% bloom for the whole region, some varietals bloomed last week. Now the leaves 🍃 are poking through the blossoms 🌸
There is still time for 花見 hanami flower-viewing. Then comes 葉っぱ見 happami leaf-viewing 🍻
Finished Northern Ireland: The Fragile Peace by Feargal Cochrane 📚
A very readable, yet comprehensive, history of Northern Island over the past 100 years. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Day 3: card 📷 (@val)
Some sakura 🌸 themed greeting cards at a backstreet stationery shop. Unfortunately they didn’t stock any of those fancy 3D constructable ones where you get a whole tree, or the music light show ones. Still, the Japan levels are turned up to 11 on these 🎚️🇯🇵
