I liked this lettering: not only front to back on the truck but italicized in the opposite from normal manner. Wonder if the tilt is consistent on the left side of the truck. 📷🚛
The old are replaced … 📷🚕
Japan Post’s 巡回郵便 “junkai yuubin” service truck (Shinjuku 2010), picking up and delivering near organizations with large mail volume. Usually it’s a SuperCub! 📷🇯🇵📮
Goroawase is flexible. Today 11/29 is いい肉 “good meat” day, but also ワンワン服 “doggy clothes” day according to Global Pets of Yokohama. 🇯🇵
Evening walk with Fuji. 📷🗻🇯🇵
Learners of Nihongo, can you guess why today 28 Nov is フランスパンの日 French Bread Day? A certain friendship association used goroawase to make it so. 🥖🇯🇵
Mokichi Foods Garden in Chigasaki serves great food and has a lovely interior with luxe lighting. 📷🍷
Today 27 Nov in 1895, inventor of dynamite Alfred Nobel executed his will creating the eponymous prizes, after having read his own obituary in which he was dubbed “the merchant of death.” 🏅🧨
Daughter 2’s bf came over to meet us, so we had a barbecue. It was so cold the charcoal was fighting the weather. Used a burner to get a nice caramelization (on the meats not the guy!). 🍖🔥
Lo! The “dent of authenticity” along the top of a real, genuine Milk carton! No “milk drink” for these Cogleys, no sir. 📷🥛
Daycare sent us this snap of Maru the Shiba and his Shiba friends. 📷🐕
This grass along the river was a pretty orange, more saturated than you’d expect normally in the fall. 📷🌾
Maru the Shiba of Awaji Island turns 3 today; happy birthday little buddy! He still doesn’t like his birthday hat & bib, but he loved the special meal K made! 🎉🐕3️⃣
Today 11/24 is the anniversary of the first opera performed in Japan, Faust, in 1894 (M27). 🎭🇯🇵
Our visit to Shirakawago a couple years ago was lovely. We missed the snow by a week. 📷🏔️🇯🇵
Thanking you for your labors since Labor Thanksgiving Day 勤労感謝の日 was established in Japan in 1948, cats everywhere say “now feed me”. 📷😅🎌
Yesterday I rode the scooter to the bank and it started really acting up, so I had the Honda shop check it. It needed an oil change and the front tire was pretty flat, but 4000 yen later it runs great. 📷🏍️
K pointed out that this is “milk” not milk. I was tricked by the kana ミルク and the English. But it clearly says 乳飲料 “milk drink”. 📷🐄
Hello! It’s “world hello day” on 11/21, but it’s also our anniversary. Surely I’m better off and the more fortunate because of her. Here’s to many more hikes together! 🥰🥳
I liked this scene, an inviting orange color to the light, the young worker my daughters’ age, maybe a part timer. Taken in Akihabara Tokyo with a Rollei film camera, 2016. 📷🥐
