Spring is in the air and it is a great time to be in Japan. Winter can be pretty tough up here in the Alps and it is bleak with the lack of color. This winter we had very little snow to cover the gray, leafless trees and rice paddy soil. Usually the dusting of white makes my valley a beautiful winter wonderland, but not this year. So after the cherry blossoms have come and gone, everything starts to come to life in Japan. The green starts creeping up the mountains, and the rice is planted make the terrain beautiful again. The flowers bloom in amazing colors and the sparrows nest everywhere, flying to and fro trying to provide for their screeching little ones. At night the frogs croak out a rhythm that is soothing to some and annoying to others while the wood pigeons wake you up at dawn with their hooting. It is pretty awesome for me because where I come from we have 2 seasons; warm and hot. We have green around us all year long and the flowers are amazing but there is little variety and is never seems as the magnificent. Below are some pictures I have taken over the past few weeks.
The garden just outside my apartment door.
Wild daisies and a funny bug they attracted. Japan has A
LOT of bugs I have never seen before. Little creepy.
A rice paddy recently planted.
My friend Charity poses in front of an old waterwheel we
found while on a road trip in the mountains.
Bugs! Japanese children like to keep them as pets!
My friend Tom found a frog while we were at a temple
This is an actual size photograph of the spider living near
my car. Spiders in Japan are not poisonous but they are big,
creepy and everywhere!
While on a random road trip we came upon this bug
chilling on a mushroom. That day in the woods we also
saw 2 tanuki's (Japanese raccoon-like animal), and 2 GIANT
scarlet colored birds that seemed to be in the finch family.
My friend Matt took this photo.
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