Mrs Woo's Adverse Possession of Brass Acres

While it has now been years since  Bart Brassica mysteriously disappeared, Mrs Woo - the great aunt of Eight Feet Pete has got a foot in the door, or perhaps three or four, into the farm, utilitarianly referred to as 'Brassica's' and now morphed by either wit or  linguistic laziness into  Brass Acres, and on the axiom of fields belonging to those who plough them, and by extending this to concept to crops, Mrs Woo now openly surveys her windfall of peppers et al. The question is will she try to sell the excess to her neighbours or put up a peck of pickled ratatouille?

A Sign of Persistently Good Manners

Hirafu in Niseko does lunch on the ski slopes very well, and as we see from this sign at Boyo - a great place for ramen, or seared salmon, salmon roe and nori on rice, they stay polite,.

Bus Stop Self -Playing Piano

Heading towards the loo's on bus trip pit stop between Hirafu and Chitose Airport, a great racket not so much as wafted but barged up the stairs. Wondering how anyone could actually play that badly,  the answer, like its version of a Strauss waltz, come like a punch in the musical nose. No One was playing, the brash belting of keys, the complete lack of finesse, tonality and feel, the mechanical delivery, the way the tune was bossed out of any residual musicality  was No One's fault. I believe the piano stool would have run off it could. I certainly did.

Mount Yohtei - Volcano with Ice

Mount  Yohtei delivers an abject lesson in the deceptive nature of appearances by being entirely imperceptible for six days, and on the seventh, reconfiguring the scale of what I thought was the lay of the land.Who was it that said about the scales on the eyes? It does say there is a lot to learn.

Wearing Winter Whites

Snow on branches, a single leaf, those strange yet promising bud points offered up to the milky winter sun, nothing is as elegant, or effortlessly well dressed, as the tree in winter.

Man Under Board -Voila Another Cover

Ah, nearly e sense of relief to find a manhole cover in snow bound Niseko, or to be more precise the main street of Hirafu  Here the council has kindly heated the footpaths to keep the snow at bay. If on  a winter's day a traveler was looking for the sun in Hirafu this is the most likely spot to find it.  The sun man is wonderfully leoline, and the date gives it a provenance not often seen in man hole covers.