I had heard about this documentary, “The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom”, filmed about 1 month after the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami of March 2011. I finally got a chance to see it, and it’s both heartbreaking and hopeful, beautifully filmed scenes of people coping with the chaos,… Continue reading
One thing about being an avid (if not very good! ^_-) photographer of a particular subject, you can find evidence of changes over time.
Another in my comparison between what Matsushima was like when I went there in 2010, before the tsunami, and 2012, when I returned to see how the town was affected.
Just a quick aside, I wanted to show just one small thing that was affected by the horrible earthquake and tsunami of 2011.
Today was a good day, even though it was long and tiring. I made it back to Matsushima, which was one of my primary goals for this trip. It was a mixed bag in some ways, as it seems Matsushima and the area was affected by the tsunami, and there… Continue reading
What, you didn’t know I had an old book? ^__^ My first book Here are some photos from that book When I went with my brother Darrell to Japan in May of 2010, we visited a place near where he was stationed back in the 1950s, the town of Matsushima…. Continue reading
My month-long trip to Japan starts in October, and I’m starting to make plans and preparations for the big Nerdtour 2012!
This is a nice story about a boy’s love of Morning Glories, and his mother’s love for him, which she spreads to the tsunami survivors through seeds from the flowers he grew just before he died, and which he never lived to see bloom. http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/life_and_death/AJ2011092612223