“I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.”
― Beryl Markham, West with the Night
july2016, Osaka and Kobe, Japan.
“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.” ~Henry David Thoreau
july16. Kobe, Japan.
27jun16. Kobe, Japan.
“Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.”– Louis L’Amour
9jun16. Kobe, Japan.
6jun16. Kobe, Japan.
At Nofukuji Temple: (Hyogo Daibutsu), one of the 3 largest Buddhas in Japan (along with Nara and Kamakura.)
2jun16. Hyogo-Kobe, Japan.
Akashi Castle (明石城 Akashi-jō) is in Akashi, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. This castle was constructed by Ogasawara Tadazane as his own castle from 1617 to 1619 to watch over the western lords, by the order of Tokugawa Hidetada, on Mount Akamatsu. The castle was built in one year, which was a relatively short amount of time. In Akashi Castle, there are two Important Cultural Properties selected by the Japanese government: Hitsujisaru Yagura and Tatsumi Yagura ~ These two yagura, or towers, are the castle’s only remaining buildings.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akashi_Castle
29may16. Kobe, Japan. Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture.
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” ~ W.B. Yeats
22may16. Kobe, Japan.
