another lazy Summer (yes, i know it's always Summer for me) day but i have checked on my upcoming flight to Japan as well started thinking about

Photos/写真 from Today and Yesterweek

i didn't know my little compact digital camera had this feature. no, not Squirrel-cam but the ability to take between 1 and 4 photos on the same "shot". i took this photo(s) on my walk back from the market.

early morning lantana

Irvine texture

Irvine minato (harbour)

Alex, Megumi and one empty glass of Tenants

the almost kiss photo & speaking of photographs of love . . .

this is another favorite song from one of my favorite movies. the song is Renai Shashin (Photographs of Love) by Ai Otsuka. the movie is Tada, Kimi wo Aishiteru (I Only Loved You, or Just Loving You). the english title is Heavenly Forest. how many tears have fallen because of this song, this video, this movie, these feelings? i just found this wonderful heartfelt review and thought i would share it . . .

Tada, kimi wo aishiteru is definitely one of the most beautiful films ever made. A simple story between two brilliantly presented characters: Makoto (Tamaki Hiroshi) and Shizuru (Miyazaki Aoi) conveys a powerful message of life.

Photography as an art form is really beautiful because it captures the little memories - of things that may seem simple to people but are in fact meaningful to us. Memories like a smile of a loved one, our friends, of good times, and of nature.

Featuring incredibly artistic photography by Miyazaki Aoi (who dragged random people away from their busy lives in New York, to take their photos), stunning cinematography, beautiful music and one of the best acting performances ever captured on film, this is the perfect film for today's world that is suffering the cost of excessive greed. It is a magnificent film for promoting environmentalism and of treasuring the beauty of the things we take for granted.

old school . . . where do i enroll?

summer storm, some are not

Criterion Band wannabe

so true, so true. this was in the same shop as the "make tea not war" in Edinburgh.

dogs need hugs too

Mike Hart's Society Syncopators with special guest Tricia Boutte

more Tricia

somewhere down there is . . . Greenland (Greenland is ice and Iceland is green) last week while flying from Glasgow to Philadelphia. thanks to the Captain for inviting me up into the flightdeck to take some photos.

Palace of the Holyroodhouse. and what do you think the yellow flag means?

better days behind