Still Snow up There

Thanks everyone, for encouraging me to keep the blog going. I don't intend to stop, but I am trying out this twitter thing because recently it has been too sunny to spend any more time on the computer than I have to.

That said, I will give in to pressure and make another quick post right now. Mainly just to get some photos out of the queue. I was waiting until I had all the photos from Golden Week done, but it looks like that may be a while. For now, you can see that there was still snow (and snowmobiles) near the top of a nearby mountain. Paul, Akiko, Miguel, Mika and I took a little trip to see it. It's a strange feeling when the trees are green, but there is still this much snow on the ground. It has no doubt melted a great deal in the past two weeks since they were here, but there is still some up there.

Most of the village snow-plows and snow-blowers are put away for the season, but there are still some up here to clear a road that leads to Nonomi, a man-made lake at the top of the mountain used to store all that snow melt for use in the rice paddies below during the drier time of year.

I liked this photo of Paul and Akiko, but it still looks a bit faded on my PC screen. I have never been able to properly calibrate the external monitor for my iBook, so all the photos I work on turn out faded in the PC. I know there is a difference between the color handling, but I wonder why other people's photos do not have the same fading when I look at them in both monitors. To try to remedy this, I used my PC to calibrate my photoshop monitor yesterday by simply putting them together and trying to make the photoshop monitor look as close as possible to what I see on the PC. Lets hope this works.

Sorry Miguel, no photos of you and Mika together yet. I will get to them soon.