……..but that’s the wonderful thing about taking photographs and writing a blog…..you can bring it all together. Care to guess what this is???? Kita is throwing off her undercoat and unless she’s brushed, all of this is in the house.  Get the Furminator! Actually...

…..or am I?  It was startling to feel the pressure of living in L.A. as soon as I was back at LAX from Japan.  Besides the city looking dreary during the drive back, I could physically feel the pressure of the city after over two weeks of total stress free...

Courtesy Eileen Ogle. Dateline: Nagano, Japan - Friday March 28th, 2014 Lead by our intrepid guide, Eva-san, shortly after 12 Noon, eight of us arrived at the trail head in the mountains of Nagano to begin hiking through the forest to see the Japanese Macaque Snow...

Just overnight in Osaka.  It's hard to believe that my artwork had traveled to Osaka 20 years prior to my being here. (It was in an exhibit sponsored by Sony that later traveled to Paris.) With special thanks to Amy for being such a wonderful guide during the...

....and his Ink & Brush shop 'Suiko-do' in Nara where we went shopping after the Deer Park adventure.  It's in the most interesting shopping arcade I'd seen so far..... And here we are....in the land of the 'big brush'! I'm anxious to see the quality of the...

Toshogu Shrine with Yomeimon Gate in Nikko designated as national treasures or Important Cultural Properties.  (A mixture of Shinto & Buddhist styles.)Meiji Shrine....( a Shinto Shrine).The Snow Monkeys in Yudanaka.  I took the day off but word is that...

.....away from it all on Mt. Koya, Wakayama prefecture, Japan.  The Sekishi-In Temple. It's quite high up there and the road is steep and winding....sort of shut your eyes going around the curves' drive. But so incredibly beautiful with trees over 60 feet high....

BBONNIE-SAN: THE CHERRY TREE This morning.  I was seated in the restaurant facing a magnificent old Cherry tree growing in a waterfall garden.  I was suddenly overwhelmed with emotion and began to weep, tears streaming down my cheeks - for those I have loved...

We got excited when we saw a few deer as the bus entered the city of Nara.  It's here that the world's largest bronze casting, the GIANT Daibutsu sits in the Todai-ji Temple.  The Buddha sits in the 'Daibutsuden' (the largest wooden structure on earth!) What...

Early morning & we left the hotel for Kinetsu Kyoto station.....destination...Toba Station and Mikimoto Pearl Island.  On the train.  Amy, our wonderful guide for the second half of our journey looks as if she's wearing a Mickey Mouse hat! We have...