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little boy, big park

the journal of Michael Werneburg

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Tokyo, 2009.09.20

Today we went to a big park in some distant part of the city. It was a place with lots of things for kids to do.

park in Tokyo

Kenny enjoyed the slides and the big open places to run around. He seemed a bit amazed at the ‘forest of mist’, where mist was produced in great profusion to flow through a sculpted area with raised hillocks for the kids to run to when the mist was really thick (I didn’t get any photos because only one small part was operating while we were there, and in any event I was holding Kenny).

Curiously, the place was recommended to me by one of my childless friends, a former coworker who like me has some time on his hands this year. He had visited the location on his own several months before, and recommended it to me because of Kenny. Hats off to Adrian for the idea.

Happily, we could get some glimpses of Fuji-san from where we were. Amusingly, I’d just switched back to black and white before photographing the sunset over Fuji-san! I should get the next rolls of film next Monday and will have more pics

glimpse of Fuji-san

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