和菓子！！　　wagashi!

和菓子の写真を撮りに行った。Here are some shots I took for a story on wagashi (Japanese traditional sweets)














The wagashi master was awesome. Great hands:

雪！！　Snow in Tokyo!!

We got some major snow today! first in like 3 yrs.


Here's our ume tree. (click on the photo -- looks cool big)


and the akebi vine


View out over the main battlement


Here's Tino-chan




Our garden


The boys had a great time.

I went to visit the SPring-8 syncrotron in Hyogo Prefecture (near Hiroshima). Stands for Super Photon Ring -- 8 Giga-electron volts. It was so cool. I was there to do interviews and a photo shoot.

Here's one of the 1km beamlines:




They're building an Xray free-electron laser. Huge mother. Here's the construction site:


Here's some shots inside the Storage Ring building:






Here's the storage ring at dusk:




Here's a different lab, across the valley:


and some labs, with the syncrotron in the background: