Shirahama lyfe

 making a big ol' pot of ishikari nabe (onions, matsutake, bamboo, sweet potato, carrots + dashi and in the lower right mixture of sake, miso, and mirin)

 instant mochi in my toaster oven

finished ishikari nabe with salmon spinach, shrimp and scallops added in

my hibiscus! 

it's hard to see but the dragon flies are swarming right now, and this field was covered with them. 

the lobby of an abandoned hotel.

looking out across the bay to kamitonda (the next northern town)