It's a beautiful day!

It's an absolutely gorgeous day today - after the morning clouds and haziness cleared off, the sky turned a fabulous blue. I brought my camera with me to work this morning and took some photos on the way home - the long way, as I wandered around for a while.

I have always loved the view along this river. There was a lot of traffic today so I didn't go up on the narrow bridge to take photos, but rather drove down beside the river a bit. It's a narrow road, but luckily no other cars came along. There was no place to do a U-turn, so I ended up on a dirt track to get back out on the main road.

The mountains you see straight ahead are the Aso range, with the volcano, Mt. Aso as its focal point. By the time I got to take pictures, it wasn't very visible, but on my way to work a couple of hours previously, the volcanic steam had been very obvious. Mt. Aso is an active volcano and also boasts itself to be the "world's largest caldera."

I love, love, love where I live. The space and the views are great. We are near the mountains, but a 45 minutes drive to Kumamoto city centre, or less than 30 minutes drive to any number of shopping malls, or "new towns" that have been built over the last 10 years.

This is (if I can get the photo up in the middle of this post - here goes ...) the view from our bedroom. This is looking southeast.

Photo keeps going to the head of the post ......... ummm......... do I keep trying or do I give up? ..........


Got it! Right, I see.......... do you really have to cut and paste the html every time, or is there an easier way of moving photos......?

Well, hello there!

I know a lot of people who keep blogs and I love reading them. Some are by people who I've never met; some are by friends of friends; some are by people who I meet quite often. I enjoy them all.
As for myself, friends have told me that I should write one. That I'd enjoy it. That they think I'd "be good at it" - thanks for that ;-)
But I really don't know if I have enough to say. No, scrap that. I could ramble on for ages about various things. But I don't know if I have something 'worthwhile' to say - whatever that means.
So, I'm going into this blogging thing telling myself that it's for me. It really doesn't matter what I say - or does it? After all, I haven't decided yet whether I'll tell anybody about it yet! ;-)

So, if you stumble across this, or if later on, I do let it slip, then please forgive the irregularity, the grammar, the mess, and in the early days, the looks of it all as I find my way around writing and laying out my first blog!