... a theme, but not the only thing... (29/365, 29 Jan 2022)
Today, Saturday, was a 'should I get up and going' or, looking at the week ahead, 'exam supervision tomorrow, five meetings Monday, 14x100 min classes over five days starting Tuesday and ending on Sunday with more exam supervision and grade uploading' (don't try saying all that without breathing), should I just ease into it all. I did the latter.
And later in the day, I realised with that sort of week ahead, I'm going run out of coffee if I don't go down to our local coffee specialist shop...so really all I did today was the shopping. I mean, it has to be done, right.
So with that in mind, today was a photographic adventure in things about my neighbourhood I will miss in the event I will eventually get home. Eventually.
I often talk about the 'walk through the neighbourhood park on the way to the shop to get the paper'. Well, this is not that park. No, this is off in the other direction to the 'high street' as it might be called. There remain streets and strips of shops in Tokyo and they are often the best places to shop. I'll get around to photographing those too, day and night.
But today, I walk past this little park each day on the way to the station. It was recently refurbished. The good thing about actually stopping in it and looking at it, is I noticed it has another section up some stairs and a giant wisteria wrapped around a trellis ...guess what will be coming up soon...
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| Take a seat |
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| Wisteria vines are fascinating |
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| It's a park but there are rules |
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| Growth, on the 'bridge' |
As the sign says, this is a park for children, or toddlers really and sometimes depending on the the time of the day, you can see the childcare centre staff here with the kids. The image of Tokyo is very urban, very built up but there are also parks all over the place. I've mentioned before that it is often the only common area for kids and their parents but they are always well-utilised.
It was only going to be a pic to two, but as with just about anything in this project, once you start looking...there is so much to see, even down to the moss-like growth taking over the sign.
Stepping out with the iPhone 12 mini today because all the shopping had to be carried home, eventually.
