Post 1518 - Sayonara

At my favourite Temple in Chiang Mai

Naga views bar on the Mekong River in Vientiane

Under Sakura on the Meguro Rive in Tokyo

So the blog comes to an end, as does my time in quarantine, along with my career working in International Schools in Thailand, Laos and Japan. Thank you blog readers for sharing my journey with me.  Looking forward to seeing and spending time with you when I settle.

Under the lights at Team Lab Planets in Tokyo

Home in Australia and in quarantine with the Sydney Harbour Bridge in the background.

Sakura and Gingko

Sakura and Gingko, twin botanical fixations over my time in Tokyo.  The trees lined and the streets and the canals and the sheer mass of the flowers or leaves created a natural spectacle of colour, nature and beauty.

Sakura along the Megura River in Naka-Meguro and the gingko is in Showa Kinen Koen one of my favourite Tokyo parks.

Autumn Leaves and a Lantern

Autumn Leaves and a Lantern, as yesterday, two of my favourite things.  Once again at a Shrine, Jodo ji shinnyocho, Shrine in Kyoto.

Sakura and Lanterns

Sakura and lanterns - two of my favorite things - so Japanese- at a Shrine. Daiyuzan Saijo-ji Shrine was a beautiful Buddhis Temple complex, on an isolated hill in a forest in Kanagawa Prefecture.  Several trains and buses and walking to finally get there, but well worth the effort - peaceful, serene and beautiful.

Monday Manholes 7 - Flowers and Birds and the Olympics

A final gallery of some Japanese manhole covers.  Floral themes and a bird (egret) on a manhole on a culverted pathway over what was a waterway leading to the Tamagawa River.

 Lilies at Toyama

 Sakura in Sakurashinmachi

An egret  and a floral theme along  a canal in Komae - the next ward to Setagaya.

Marking the Olympics at Ueno Park 

A floral theme in Takayama

Another flower - this in Kawasaki - across the Tamagawa River from Setagaya-ku.

Sunday Kimono - The Finale

Two halves, two different kimono styles modern and traditional, spring and autumn, peonies and chrysanthemums, social and formal, both divine. Kimono style and kimono love!!

Senso-ji Shrine

Senjo-ji is Tokyo's oldest temple.  Normally thriving with crowds of visitors -tourists and locals, it was incredibly empty on my last visit.  The lanterns were still glowing.