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写真のサイクリング

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2010.05.13

The weather this spring has been awful. Today we caught a break at last.

Up until the final week in April, the weather here in Tokyo had been mostly cloudy, windy, cool, and wet. Then suddenly it turned to muggy, with highs in the mid twenties. This past week, it's reverted to jacket weather, and today was another day of rain and cloud.

But then it cleared up nicely in the afternoon, leaving us with an evening that was at once sunny and cool, but also with one of those interestingly cloud-swept skies that comes after a weather change. The sort of weather you associate with "Spring".

So on the way out the door to get Kenny from the day care, I grabbed my old Minolta. With the boy on the baby seat behind me, I toodled around Shinagawa's overbuilt sea-side, snapping bridges and buildings and canals. It was fun. Kenny enjoyed hollering about the passing trains and monorails.

rand()m quote

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

—Siddhārtha Gautama (The Buddha)