Japan Adventure

Closer look at these beautifully polished stone tables & stools. I'd love a set like this!


And a wild boar also lives back here! (Boar is my Japanese zodiac sign.) About once a year, our friend Hiroko brings us a package of boar meat from her husband's hunting expeditions into the mountains around their home. Delicious - like the best ham/pork you've ever eaten . . .


This boar is interested in us as well. He has a large area in which to roam around, but I imagine he misses the freedom of mountain life.


Can you see those long eyelashes? This boar looks sedate, but they can be very ferocious. I'm glad there's a fence . . .


Yellow forsythia alongside the highway above a beautiful stone wall.