Our Green has Come

Fukushimagata, Niigata, Japan

May, 2018

It's really nice to see green after the colder months.

Here are some sights from the last month or so around Niigata.

Dragonfly

Grey Heron

Osprey

Oriental Cuckoo

Barn Swallow

Tulips in Niigata

Tulips

Nagaike Park, Shibata, Niigata, Japan

April 28, 2018

I haven't been a very good birder recently. Here are some tulip photos taken last Saturday.

Niigata takes great pride in their tulips this time of year.

Today is the start of the second part of the 9ct Golden Week holidays but it's raining. We had to go to work for two days in the middle of Golden Week this year. 

Robin in the Shadows

Japanese Robin

Junsai-ike, Niigata, Japan

April 21, 2018

Just a brief post to keep this blog alive. Enjoyed two days at Junsai-ike over the weekend but didn't get many pics. Best were of this robin in the shadows. Anyway, it's a new bird for this blog.

Been having lots of software troubles the last few months and I'm tired of sitting at the computer for two hours to do a 5 minute edit. I have used Adobe for 20 years but now I'm tired of signing in every time I want to edit something. Wish I could just open up an app and just do it.

I also bought Affinity Photo, Luminar, Aurora HDR. I have Nikon software and Apple Photos. I miss iPhoto and Aperture. Maybe I need another computer. Recently, I have been enjoying reading books made of paper and printing my photos for albums and framed prints. I went to an Ed Sheeran concert in Tokyo and stood behind a woman who held up her smartphone over her head, (in front of my face) filming it all night. I watched her watching her screen. I think it should be called an iLive.

I guess I'm old now.