One of the highlights of my autumn 2008 trip to Japan was a weekend spent in Hakone, the beautiful mountain resort near Tokyo. There, my friends and I stayed at a traditional ryokan (bed-and-breakfast), enjoying the hot springs and visiting the famous lake.

I recently realized that I never did get around to uploading all my photos from my trip to Japan a few years back... here are my photos from Tokyo.

Wow, has it really been five months since my last post here?

Busy winter--in addition to the day job, I started work on the sequel to The Wolf Prince, tentatively-titled The Queen's Orphan.  I've been having a great time creating a whole culture--politics, language, geography, etc ( Read more... )

Some more photos from my trips to Japan. These were taken in December, 2004, and are of Kamakura, one-time capital of Japan.
( I think I managed to turn the captioning on for the slideshow )

I realized that I still haven't sorted through and edited most of the photos I took during my trip to Japan 18 months ago.

In response to a recent post by fenikkusuken, a Kyoto photo album ( Read more... )

I finally finished slogging through the editing, selection, and captioning of the first set of my vacation photos. Holy crap, but I took a lot of photos--tons of medieval sculpture and Roman stuff, but that's geekery I won't inflict on the rest of the world. Here are the highlights ( Read more... )