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Snapped a coupla pix of Fuji on our walk today:





Most days of the year, Fuji is not clearly visible from my location due to cloud cover. But typically late December and early January are very clear, providing good views.

I really enjoyed seeing those pics! I spent January and February of 1964 at a Marine corps base at the base of "Fujuiama" as part of the medical support team for the 3rd Marine division as they endured their foul-weather training. The top of the mountain was only visible on 11 days.

This environment provided serious test for us all.

There was a village within walking distance of the base called Gotimba or Gotemba. Super friendly people. The nasty weather not withstanding, I thoroughly enjoyed my time there.

What was the name of the town in the pic?
 
Jack, the pix were taken in Nishi-Kamakura, which means west Kamakura. Mt. Fuji is farther away from that spot than it looks in the photo. (I think it is called foreshortening, the lens/optical effect.)

1964 was a big year for Japan. The Tokyo Olympics that year marks, for the older generation of Japanese, their emergence from the ashes of defeat and into the postwar comity of the west. At the time, I was 12, back from my dad's five-year posting in Germany, and living in rural northern Virginia.
 
Guess what I found inside the laptop?

My gf was wondering why her Dell laptop fans were making strange noises. Well, she does have two huge cats (Izzie and Charlie-of-epic-whiskers, who have graced these pages) so, despite the very fine filters on the computer case, perhaps it's no surprise to find cat hair!

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As Jerry Lee Lewis might have said, "Great balls of fur!"
 

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The Sand Hills are very noisy birds.
Whether flying over or in the corn.
I took these pics in the State Refuge at Bernardo, NM.
I estimate about 1,000 Sand Hill Cranes there.
All clicking and clacking!
 
Snapped a coupla pix of Fuji on our walk today:
This is for Onomea, the photos were taken in the fall of 1967 on the way from Iwakuni to Atsugi. The pilot of the plane was one of the last enlisted flying pilots in the Marine Corps. The plane was a four engine C-54 or R5D. The pilot requested a fly around Fuji and was granted. There were only four people on the plane as passengers so it was a thrill.
If you put the pictures back to back they will be either side of mountain.
 

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Thanks, F4Phantom. Those are great pix. Fuji is a spectacular mountain, and holds a special place inside the hearts of the Japanese. I am not Japanese, but lived here in Japan for a long time, so it feels kinda special to me, too. When we can see it, it always provides a boost to the spirit.

It is a volcano. My wife was telling me today that she reads that it also might blow up again at any time. I recall from my grad student days that it blows up on the average of every 250 years, or whatever it was, and is considerably overdue...

(When it does blow, if we are still around, hopefully we'll be home in Oregon...)
 

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