It finally smells like spring, and the sakura is flowering right on time too. We are hitting the brief, pleasant few weeks between the raw, ...

Spring ends and summer finally begins. Golden Week is coming up along with several days of good weather. We're going on an overnight tri...

..degrees, that is, with a hazy midday sun making it feel even warmer. After lunch I bought the first ice cream of the year and ate it while...

Springtime is absolutely the best season here in Osaka. It's a sliver of meteorological perfection between the chilly, wet winter and th...

The winter is finally coming to an end. Herewith, an excuse to post a lot of otherwise unremarkable pictures. We got cherry blossoms, which ...

The winter in Osaka is chilly and grey, and the summer is long and hot, punctuated with typhoons. The intervening spring feels neither as lo...