Happy Birthday to me. thank you to the Maekawa Family (Minoo and Itami, formerly known as Nakamura) for another wonderful ohanami. and thank also to the Matsushita Family (Suma), Kojima Family (Suma), and Yamamoto Family (Shakudo).
saying goodbye (but not goodbye) at Hotarugaike Station. またね。
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tadaimaloha. i am home. the flight was only 10 hours and 21 minutes. koko ni iru. and it is still my birthday. after some lunch, i think i will walk to the beach as it is a beautiful, sunny, warm-like-a-summer day.
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after a little nap, i walked down to the beach. it was still quite warm at 5pm. and as i was walking along the beach . . .
a dolphin family heading north rushed by very close to shore. truly a birthday presence.
from sakura to sunset . . .
the second sunset on my birthday (the first one was in the air somewhere over the Pacific as we were flying east). this sunset was at my beach where the sun was heading west back to Japan. when i be returning? hmmmm.
before walking back home after the sunset, we took one more photo
Tony checking out the lifeguard's signboard . . . perhaps tomorrow we will return for a swim.
Chibi. i spend one month in Japan and on my first day home, i meet my favorite kind of dog, a Japanese shiba-ken. we were both walking home. another happy birthday presence.
