Around the House.

My humble abode. These are the teachers apartments where I live. My little flat is the 4th one from the left. Maybe you can see the light blue curtains? Other J.H.S. teachers live here, but they vanish to the far ends of Yamanashi on the weekends.

Here's what I see from the back porch of my room. The ladies who work in the fields you see are very nice. During the day they work at the kyuushoku sentaa (school lunch center... yes they have a word for "school lunch") making me food!

Again from the back porch, this time note how low the clouds get! Sometimes I swear I could touch them.

On the side of the apartments that you can't see yet is the front door. From this front door, I turned left slightly and took a picture up to show how close the mountains were. The tiny bit of building you see is the gym where I play badminton on Tuesdays, and where they hold some events like the Hayakawa Matsuri and the Kindergarden sports festival.

A shot of the back of the junior high school from my parking lot. Directly behind me are the teachers apartments, and to my right is the gym and the BOE.

Again the mountains over the BOE and the J.H.S. This shot was taken from the J.H.S. lower parking lot. You can see a clip of the J.H.S. on the left, with the BOE building above on the right.

The end of summer (early September) is rice harvest time, and all through Hayakawa you can see rice drying.

Note the cropped stalks below the hanging rice.

This is up near where I saw monkeys, looking down from a bridge at a stream flowing down the mountain.

Directly across the street from me is the Hayakawa river (so redundant!). Across from the J.H.S. is a tiny park with stairs down to the river, where I took this picture looking back up the town.

Mountains from a road near my house.

Mountains from a road near my house.

Mountains from a road near my house.

Mountains from a road near my house.

A small shrine.

The mountains and a fresh veggie field.

A view of the Hayakawa river.

Some flowers along the road.

Someone's garage. Onions and garlic hanging out to dry. Yummy!