bunny foo foo

Ordinarily, I'm not too impressed by cuteness but good heavens - will you take a look a Edo's latte. 
It made my espresso look geriatric.

How to Escape an Avalanche

For future reference.



via Alltop via Buzzfeed
 

styrofoam terrace garden

Yesterday, I spotted some clever styrofoam repurposing on our walk through town.  There parked on the cement wall of the canal: a vegetable garden.  Old coolers reinforced with packaging tape and neat wooden frames filled with soil and plants.

Well mulched taters.

Bonsai with mossy feet. 

A small tree.

So give that trash a second thought; you never know what could grow into a garden.

Boo!

From the top of one of our local temples, an onigawara.

mochi's cousin dango

These are dango, skewered rice cakes similar to mochi with a slightly different, less sticky texture.  Eaten year-round, dango are a common sight but during spring you see them in the cheery pink (sakura), green (yomogi), and white (good ol' plain.)  Happy Spring Everyone!

digging for treasure

Awhile back I interrupted this rosy-cheeked fellow to ask what he was doing.  Rocking Wellies and smelling vaporous, he very graciously demonstrated his digging-for-odd-crustaceans technique. At the time, I thought he called them tejiro, but both Kenkyusha and Google have concluded I'm deluded.

Regardless, of my confoundings here's visual evidence of the transparent shrimp-like critters.

Anyone out there in the black pit of the web-o-sphere know what these critters are called and how I can eat them?