Rice Miles, or Wry Smiles - The train from Imari to Fukuoka
To get from the wonderful pottery town of Imari in Saga prefecture Kyushu, where lovely pots and porcelain have been despatched to far flung...
To get from the wonderful pottery town of Imari in Saga prefecture Kyushu, where lovely pots and porcelain have been despatched to far flung...
On the Kiso Road, along Nakasendo Way, at the top of the pass at Yubuhara, this group of deities stay shadow quiet but, like a moment of k...
Food markets are the hero of any locale, and while Makishi Public Market is small and the ground floor seems to be just seafood and pickles...
Waves, waterfalls and fountains, all types of white water, are the perfect counterpoint to green scenery, an anodyne for the eyes, a breath ...
Here a pixel fine slice of an Iphone photo delivers the non-contemporary - perhaps it is the salt air, the storm rolling in from east, or a...
It’s not Gangnam Style but Gingham Style for this checker be-decked Poochie who is being taken for a ride in uptown Karuizawa. So many qu...
Bart Brassica is, it seems, on holidays, and while he has gone singularly Dutch and Dining Out ( Stand Up Stood UP ) and as been spotted a...
Inside the New Otani Hotel in Tokyo there is an incredible 400 year old Japanese garden, among all sorts of lovely things is this stone basi...
Yes, here we have levelled up with Ginza’s famous Seiko Clock, having found Mitsukoshi Department Store’s level nine roof top garden. A...
Back in the day when my children were small, I read loads of children’s books, and had been known to be so engrossed I would unintentionally...
Granny Eggwhistle says she is sure the new Farm Hand might be a member of an occult, because under hand is one thing but Over Hand like thi...
Double ruffled tulips are fine examples of the under rated ephemera of fading flowers, they have a wabi-sabi all their own, here the tulips...
It’s easy to forget, or maybe not realise, that like turning the heel for a sock, the ocean knits itself around corners into bays, here the...
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As Bart Brassica is holidaying double Dutch style, see Episode double-double-dutching-bart-fakes-fancy.html , he has been wistfully waiting at Glenn’s Historic Gettysburg Diner, at which there are 166 vacant seats. Is so much emptiness ominous in a diner open 24 hours a day? Notwithtsanding the lack of customers Bart appears to have been Stood Up by Mavis Eggwhistle, though as Mavis is unlikely to know that Bart Brassica had invited her, as he is working on his Telepathic Powers, after enrolling, but not attending, TelePathy for Beginners, which as he understood the CurryCueLamb, would be mostly acts of contemplation. So, is this Bart’s last piece of Stand Up? Will his Curried Lamb Burger ever come?
As Bart Brassica is holidaying double Dutch style, see Episode double-double-dutching-bart-fakes-fancy.html , he has been wistfully waitin...
These two Donquettas were not coquettish about dandelion greens, though there was some jockeying, at which they excel, for access, and while...
A Myanmar market stack of green leaves leaning towards a Fibonacci spiral , two stems of Angophora leaves, thoughtfully snipped off by sulfur-crested cockatoos, and a tableau of acorn, oak leaf, birch cone and my green Lamy fountain pen, all contribute to a visual paraphrase of John Donne’s green thoughts in a green shade.
A Myanmar market stack of green leaves leaning towards a Fibonacci spiral , two stems of Angophora leaves, thoughtfully snipped off by sulf...
Pink skates with yellow laces, scuffed toes reflect on their uneven roll call of days along the Esplanade, what can explain their sense of e...
The Blue-faced honey eater may be the only creature that looks good in Blue eye shadow, and being so very dapperly attuned to the cafe colou...
It’s the set of three for me, even things waiting to be set up with a dedicated tableau are given a temporary set place of three, here two ...
While one might say these birds, the green porcelain, the small black bird and their two amigos, more easily seen below, are if not in han...
Bart Brassica is ambivalent about holidays, preferring to abide his time at home but, mindful of his social media profile sometimes will fa...
A stroll, what other pace would do, of the fine Botanic Gardens in Castlemaine, Vic, shows these bronze seed pods, which though growing now...
Bart has been toying with the idea of sub dividing Brass Acres into hobby farmlets, and seeking a bold new family crest which he believes will convince Huntington County admin , has been considering either the phrase ‘Avis Avid Aviso’ which Mavis tells him is Latin for ‘go ask the birds’ and Sub Divo but he has stood outside under the blazing sky so long his time lapse photograph has got a case of the shimmers, and Bart himself is between two birds and fennel anyline. Still, as Huntington. County Council have not received anything by way of an application from Bart, and Latin is Persona Non Data with them, this maybe Via Fini for Barts’s motto mania.
Bart has been toying with the idea of sub dividing Brass Acres into hobby farmlets, and seeking a bold new family crest which he believes ...
By demolition of the neighbouring shed, these up-ended dinghies have appeared at Shelley Beach beside ( (yes) The Boatshed, their dark or al...
It may be a little compulsive but mostly I take photos of flowers I’ve arranged or grown, to record the pleasure of that fleeting moment w...
Though not a native of the tin-scape of Uluṟu - a postcard from the inimitable Dan Brown - this paper Benteveo, that arrived par avion from...
Walking along Franklin Beach on Lake Saint Clair, one of my well-balanced predecessors has hit the right note with this staccato column, wi...
Drawing gum leaves and nuts is a bit like getting lost in the forest, best to keep going, looking for edges, and perhaps stone curlews and s...
The lovely Bat Wing Fern, this charmingly winged frond found by Lake Saint Clair, botanically Histiopteris incisa, here shows its likenes...
Each view, potentially has its perfect frame at Lake Saint Clair it might be the uprighted, galactic explosion of silvered roots of trees, drift wood grey from floods and seches, telescopic in their perspective, a species of clock, which ticks off time like fleas.
Each view, potentially has its perfect frame at Lake Saint Clair it might be the uprighted, galactic explosion of silvered roots of trees,...
Around and about and under, this moss patch I found near the Franklin River- that is the famous FRanklin in Tasmania, is a lovely thickets o...
There is no neigh-saying, the horse was the golden means of transport for nearly every century before the invention of the bicycle. Here is...
Spring springs white,
The frog’s green glaze,
Hastens the dove’s flight.
Some matches are made of pasta - as autocorrect would have it - and some, like these, are more flowing. The Frog’s exuberant discourse, no...
Coming along the edge of the Douro River in Oporto, where it meets the Atlantic, the ocean is a tumult of mood and grey-green flux, the san...
The sea glass tide delivers up, a mosaic of sand smoothed parts, like a pledge not to drink to much, the sea recycles glass to sand,, aggreg...
There are perfect beaches and then there are perfect swimming holes, and this creek, with its lovely run of cascades and small pools, with i...
To some dishes - the joke -What did one grave say to the other? A: That looks good in you.- apply, everything looks good in this vintage Sh...
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Yes, for those of you who have wrangled with errant ‘em-dashes, inserted apostrophe’s or deleted them for text not your own, this is the def...
Autumn is over, all its red-brown leaves have gone to ground, as old spoons know each season has its measure, as each patterned handle, eac...