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Fuji glimpses

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Years ago when I lived in Sydney it was frequent that you'd see apartment listings featuring the term "harbor views". This meant you could supposedly see the Sydney harbor. This was occasionally derided as "harbor glimpses", meaning in the right conditions and looking in exactly the right direction (say, between two other apartment buildings and through the infrastructure of a bridge) you could see the water.

Well this morning, more than a month after moving in, I've discovered that my apartment (or rather, the out-door hallway outside my apartment) has "Mt Fuji glimpses". It rained hard for several hours yesterday, scrubbing the air. So it was only today that I saw the big mountain.

Can see you see that tuft of white on the horizon?

Fuji!

Upon reflection I find it curious that I've never spotted the mountain from the cemetery, which is in that line of trees across the hill-top that forms the horizon in these photos. I guess that's smog for you.