Bette Midler  "I Shall Be Released"

                   Words and Music by Bob Dylan

 

                   Are you released?

                   Garlic

                   Rice fields

                   The yellow rice on the right side is ready for harvest.

                   Michi-no-Eki (roadside station)
                     
                     michi = road
                     no = of, on, ...
                     eki = station

                   Michi-no-Eki is a rest area along roads.

                   Michi-no-eki Official Website
                   Michi-No-Eki (Web Japan.org)

                   To-ne River

It has the largest drainage basin and is the second longest (322 kilometers) in Japan.

                   To-ne River

 

                   I was here in Chiba Prefecture.

                   The other side of the river is Ibaraki Prefecture.

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                   La Polifònica de Puig-reig  "El Cant dels Ocells" (Song of the Birds)

                   PRAY FOR BARCELONA
                   PRAY FOR CAMBRILS

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                   Nigeria, August 15
                   At least 30 people were killed in a suicide attack.

                   PRAY FOR NIGERIA

                   Claude Monet

                   "Lavacourt vu de la berge de Vétheuil, effet du soir"
                    (Lavacourt seen from the bank of Vétheuil, evening effect)
                       1880
                       Private collection

                   Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art, Tokyo

                   The beautiful sound of a Fazioli piano

                   Music

                      Franz Liszt  "Liebesträume No. 3" (Love Dream)

                      Performed by Chiara Opalio at Fazioli Concert Hall.

                   Pub street

                                  A grasshopper

                                  Can you find it?

                   Google Japan, August 11

 

                   Yesterday was a holiday "Mountain Day" in Japan.

                   Food stall, Tokyo

                   あんず (anzu) = apricot
                   飴 (ame) = candy

                   Summer festival, Tokyo

                   Public housing, Tokyo

                   Gustave Courbet

                   "Waves"
                      1870
                      Oil on canvas

                   The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo


      Gustave Courbet
        Waves, 1869 - Philadelphia Museum of Art

        Stormy Sea (The Wave), 1870 - Musée d'Orsay, Paris (Artsy.net)

        The Wave, 1869/1870 - Alte Nationalgalerie, National Museums in Berlin
        (Google Arts & Culture)

        The Wave, 1869 - Städel Museum, Frankfurt

        The Wave, 1869 - National Galleries of Scotland (Google Arts & Culture)

                   Sara Gazarek  "Too Darn Hot"

 

 

 

                   Vancouver Celebration of Light 2017 - Team Japan