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MAM Day Five

Maybe I’ll take you on a little trip to Japan today. Or at least get started. I went to Japan on a North Branch Nature Center Birding trip. With the proviso that I am not an avid birder and I left most of the bird photos to those who are.

Here we go.

Landing in Japan

Map of our itinerary

First house we saw after we got off the plane.

Mmmmmm. Persimmons.

Tree ID sign in arboretum

Man playing his flute in a park.

Gardener in the park. The parks are so well tended.

“Dangerous!!! There’s a swamp up ahead. Let’s not fall in”

“Wild winter birds seen around Tartara Lake”

Here we are looking for birds – specific ones of course.

A nice place to sit and look out at the water.

Gone fishin’

Oh no I can’t ID these but it was quite a dance they were doing.

Bridge to a memorial park in the afternoon sun.

A stone marker. I love the lettering etched in the stone.

A path in the park.

In the Karuizawa National Bird Sanctuary. I also love reflections in puddles.

The food was amazing!

I ate miso soup with soba noodles for lunch everyday . We stopped at Seven Elevens for lunch to buy ready made food. Pretty good too.

This was a robot serving us lunch in a restaurant. Weird, but the food was good.

Condiment pots.

Well, a little taste of my trip with more to come.