Monday, 9 July 2012
New Atomic Dog
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Outside my studio
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About Me
- Bryan's Japanese Textiles
- My home is in a vertical mountain village in Fujino just outside of Tokyo. It is here, in my 150 year old silk farming house I hold classes and workshops related to Japanese textiles. Our village shrine dates back 650 years. I’ve dug up dozens of 5000-year-old Jomon-era pottery shards near by. Twenty-one houses are scattered and perched on ledges along a narrow twisting road. Most of the somewhat ramshackle farmhouses designed for silk farming cling poetically to the deep shadows of afternoon. The land reached by the sun was either too steep to build on or was used to grow enough food to survive. From the front of my house I can see well-tended tea terraces ascending impossibly upward. Climb up the hillside and from the queues of tea you can survey my old farmhouse and on extra clear days even spy a self-conscious Mt Fuji.
hope he finds a permanent home, maybe you will change your mind?? how does Snoopy feel about her new companion?
ReplyDeleteI am hoping I don't change my mind. Snoopy just completely ignored him. Sniffed his butt, hmmppgfffed and walked away. She knows she is at the top of the order and nothing will change that. I have someone coming over now to look at him. Fingers crossed for Geiger's sake.
DeletePoor Geiger; he looks endearing, but very worn, and weary. He's exposure to Fukushima environs does not bode well for his long-term health. I expect you might find it hard to part with him.
ReplyDeleteThank- you for all your interesting posts.
He was stuck in an x-ray machine for 16 months. He has some battle scars from dealing with the dog packs roaming around. A messed up ear and tail and broken teeth. He supposedly had a girlfriend and they were sleeping together in an abandoned house that had the front door opened. I thought the story would have made good copy and he could have found a home with his love. She was placed somewhere else.
DeletePoor little guy. He wakes up at 5:00 and insists on a walk. He has good manners. I am avoiding eye contact. Snoopy is a free range low maintenance dog. The door is open and she comes and goes as she pleases. I am her housekeeper so to speak. It would be hard to make a yard for Geiger and I can't bear to keep a dog tied up no matter how long the lead is.