So having made the trip up through Tohoku yesterday and spending the night in local accommodation, today was the major event, or series of events. I guess some would wonder why a university would make such a big deal of making it to the ten year mark, but mine did, so I can't really comment. This occasion had the additional focus of commemorating the late founding president (equivalent to the Australian Vice-Chancellor), Professor Nakajima Mineo who as it happens, was a specialist in Chinese politics and Northeast Asian foreign policy, broadly my own field so I was familiar with his work.
I'll put up an extra post shortly, there were a couple of quite spectacular displays along the way I caught on video, worth watching.*
[*Except they're not playing at the moment...so I have to investigate.]
Anyway, I got out and about around the hotel quite early for, you guessed it, more pics. Never waste and opportunity...
There were a few unexpected ones too.
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| Up close again with one of those maples, again |
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| One of the locals |
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| The (lack of) colour fascinated me, gorgeously natural sepia (no filtering, no editing) |
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| Going red, can't help itself |
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| Even these ones... |
Not as cold as I might have expected either. Anyway, my long service leave formally finished yesterday, so I suppose a Saturday filled with events in the remotest northern part of Honshu isn't too bad a way to return to work...
[Camera : Canon EOS 60D, 28-80mm, 7.16-7.30am; iPhone 6, 7.23am]
