Last week in Tochigi

Last week we had Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday off for national holidays. So, Shimon and I went to Tochigi Prefecture to help his father fire some pottery. Sadly, Shimon has all the pictures of the kiln (I'm so forgetful sometimes!). But I did take a few other fun pictures.


This was our little friendly frog... he stayed on that leaf for an entire day. He only moved around in a circle.


Chestnuts! It's fall!!


I thought this was a nice picture... a ginkgo leaf.


Fisherman on the river... they were there all day!


Empty rice fields. This really is the ultimate sign that fall is here.


Right before we headed back to Tokyo I got ahold of this little guy. How cute is he!?!