JAWing On – Life on Okinawa

Another of the emerging sun pics.

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I was out trying to capture some of the local bird song this morning and was lucky enough to also catch a few photos of the midmorning sun as it emerged from a billowy cloud.

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A look at one of the local island roads [wire to wire 🙂 ].

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Well if you’ve been keeping up with the sight, then you already know I’ve been experimenting with the video portion of blogging. Here is the first attempt at creating a video completely from scratch (no pre-recorded video in the project). The meal is for the amateur foodie portion of this sight, Innie-or-Outie, which was created because of the large number of food-oriented posts that were taking up too much of this sight. The video was created from original pictures taken while I was cooking the meal and self-recorded audio instructions.

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A look at where some of the local boonies meet the sky on a bright Autumn afternoon….

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Another look at the island sky in a residential area on an autumn afternoon.

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This is a picture outside our front door of the sun as it rises on the island. A brief video of the sunrise and morning bird song is available here.

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This is a house with traditioanl Ryukyu roofing that we came across on a road trip recently. There are several of this style of house in most areas on island, but they are a diminishing sight.

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I usually don’t post about anything too personal, but today is something a little different… our 32nd anniversary. Sometimes I think we amaze ourselves more than anything else. Maybe thirty-two years of marriage isn’t that big of a deal, but given that we had only seen each other but a few times prior to the first date, were engaged six weeks later, and married about six weeks after that….were both under the age of twenty-five, from different races, different cultures, and different countries….. well, surviving all those tumultuous ups and downs feels like something worth a mention….

Photo of our first date in June 1974 taken at Liebe…. now known as Hard Rock Cafe Okinawa on B.C. Street (Chuo Park Avenue) in Koza (Okinawa City).