Birds on Wire

Around 6 pm on 9/1/09....the thunderstorm was approaching. This particular intersection of Commercial Blvd. and University Rd. was the information headquarter for these small birds.

Usually much bigger pigeons here....but it was almost overwhelming to see the amount of the birds on wire. It looked as if they gather here and talking to each other, try to get informations where to go and hide from the storm.

Are thy panicking? Why this particular spot? Where actually do birds stay during the heavy rain? Under the trees? Is there always enough trees for all the birds??

The birds were so small that it only made electric lines thicker, we wouldn't know if they weren't flying around.

The thunderstorm was severe, it was raining for a long time into the night and it made me wonder what these birds were doing....

Hot...!

August 26, 2009
I took 1,227 photos in Japan from 6/21 to 7/7. I had to convert them to Jpg, fix and edit, and resize while deleting a lot of no-good and non-interesting photos.
I've been experiencing the trip again in my photos, I've visited Hokkaido again and came back to Tokyo again and ..... finally my trip ended, again, after one and a half months.

The final numbers of my photos : 564, exactly 50% survived.

Now I have to take new photos, have to get used to my new camera!

It was raining - a tropical shower - so I was preparing to go out, but by the time I got to the closest park, the rain was gone and the Sun was already too hot. All the raindrops I was expected were quickly evaporated, I just got some on this Waterlily.

It's too hot to be outside and be patient to wait for the moments I'd like to shoot.....maybe I should think of something to shoot without going outside.....for a while....

Soy Sauce Art

It was one of my niece's birthday party yesterday at my brother's house. Family and friends.

I brought my little Sony for the pictures, but then, I noticed that I forgot to charge the battery, I only had taken a few pics, and the battery died on the birthday cake!!!

But that is not what I am writing about.

Yes, one of the appetizers was a Sushi Plate. My daughter ate some of them, and she got a little bored (because she is not very chatty, just like me....) and she started to draw on the plate with SOY SAUCE!!
Soy Sause Art?! I wish I know the way to keep this!

Happy Birthday to my niece, she's going to start College (120 miles from home). She's leaving in 3 days....!! Good luck! I miss you!

Happy Birthday

My Daughter's 14th Birthday...August 2

Happy Birthday to you!

Once a few days, eh? It's been 10 days, man...!!

Since I came home from Japan, I haven't taken any photos....too busy to process the photos from Japan.....that's why I don't remember about this page......

OK, another mammal I'd met in Hokkaido....Chipmunks.

We saw Foxes and Deers, we were expecting to see them but Chipmunks! They were at the top of the Mt. Mikuni, we saw them behind the small rest house at Mikuni Pass.

We were very glad to see them, but this was the same problem about the foxes....they were used to people too much and didn't mind to show up in front of us......

So long...

We were expecting to see a fox during our Hokkaido trip, and we did!! This was a very friendly and pretty one!

My daughter and my niece on the way to Cape Erimo

My Mom and daughter near Hiroo town(above) and a view close to our house in Tokyo(below)

It's been more than one month.....I'd never even open this site....!

My resolution in the middle of the Summer, to write this at least once a few days!

I came home from Japan last Tuesday, I still have my jeglag symptom - wake up early (4 am) and get so sleepy at early nights. Luckily, I feel OK in the day time, I went back to work with no problem. The rest of the day, when I sit in front of my computer, I have to see all the photos I took in Japan (1,210) and check them, fix them and delete them.....so I feel like, I still am in Japan and still enjoy my vacation......

This time, I went to Japan with my daugher and my niece. We had two days in Tokyo before the trip to Hokkaido, 7 days in Hokkaido, Obihiro, Sounkyo and Abashiri, and another 4 days in Tokyo.

The first thing I did in Tokyo---I bought a new camera!! I was planning to buy another Sony, Alpha 350, but they changed the model already and the very new model Alpha 380 was on the market just the day I went to the store! So, I was one of the first to own this camera, and possibly the only one in the States!!

Hokkaido trip - we were in my Mom's hometown Obihiro for 3 nights, to see Mom's old friend. But my niece got a high fever, we got to visit a Doctor. The fever was gone soon but she was feeling little weaker but we had to drive to another place for 3 more nights...

When we were back in Tokyo, we did shoppings, we went to see my high school friends, went to Ueno Zoo with some of them and went to see Mom's Dr. at the hospital. He told me the best news that my Mom's doing very fine, nothing to worry about! Still hard to leave her alone again.....but after about 18 hours flight and changing planes, we were back home.

...and my computer....

(OK, thanks for working for me for a long time!)

The same weekend I lost my lens to NYC and my contact lens, now what, my computer's gone.

A Virus Attack. I'been noticing that some message windows pop up too often saying that "..application not found..." "...couldn't find inCD something..." but working just fine. But this saturday, even the popup blocker is on, suddenly lots and lots of Popup ads came up, and (this is the worst) Voice-Ads started. Just the voice saying this and that, no windows so I can't close, I can't get rid of the voices....and the next day, these things escalated in a light speed, like, a hundred of Ad-windows at the same time on the screen and crazy voices...... so I had to disconnect the internet. I should do that much earlier......it was too late.....

My 3rd loss......why everything at once? Oh, and the TV is broken. Not showing anything on the screen suddenly. Might be the age, but why now???