The Blue Mountains.
Mangos: $10 a box at a rest area.
First look at our new furniture.
Front of the house. Wanted to take this picture so I could compare it to how it looks after improvements are made. Stay tuned.
The kitchen. Money shot!
Damn those granite counter tops are inspiring.
Miyako testing the sleepability of the new sofa.
The new swing.
Day at Darling Harbour, Downtown Sydney
New photos of the garden
Our mandarin tree is in full bloom. Each of those flowers will grow into a mandarin.
I put in flowering bushes to eventually conceal the space under the deck.
Our new maple tree; a present from Grandma Takeo
Miyako got a new swing. I love it as much as she does.
The vegetables are really coming to live.
Kent was fascinated by the line trimmer. Such a boy.
This, to me, exemplifies the Australian visual landscape. The sun-burned gum-tree siding, single Federation finial, rusted tin roof, and the perpetually cloudless, bristling azure sky all meet in a single scene to create what is for me the archetypal Australian vista.
