Notices by Christopher Keener, pHd :ddg: (roboticistduck@mas.to)

Biwa Pond is a natural body of water at an elevation of 4,500 feet in Shiga Kogen in the mountains of northern Nagano Prefecture. It has a depth of 68 feet and is apparently used for limited electricity generation. It's name derives from the shape of the pond resembling a Japanese short necked lute (biwa).
🎸 💧#長野県 #志賀高原 #山ノ内町 #Japan #Nagano
琵琶池は、長野県北部の山岳地帯、志賀高原の標高 1,396 メートルに位置します。水深 21 メートルの自然の水域で、限られた電力の発電に使用されているようです。池の形が日本の短い首を持つ弦楽器 (琵琶) に似ていることから、この名前が付けられました。

Today we escaped the heat by evacuating to Shiga Kogen, a ski resort north of us. This is Kanman waterfall at an elevation of 4,000 feet. It's a cool 69°F up here. It will be hard to go back down the hill later.
💦 🌡 ⛰ #長野県 #志賀高原 #山ノ内町 #Japan #Nagano
今日、真夏の蒸し暑さから志賀高原に避難しました。ここは標高1,400メートルにある澗満滝、涼しい21℃です。下界におりたくない…。

My favorite flowers at the town's rose garden at this time of year are not roses.
🥀 #坂城町 #長野県 #Japan #SakakiTown #Nagano
この時期、町のバラ園で私のお気に入りの花はバラではありません。

Cosmos in bloom in front of my favorite mountain shrine. It's going to be another scorcher today. Stay cool and well hydrated everyone.
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昌信神社の前の野生のコスモス。今日も暑くなりそうだ。皆様、涼しく、十分に水分を補給してください。
#SakakiTown #Nagano #Japan

@minorusaba that sounds like a particularly tasty option, the poison pill. Being about ten years ahead of China in terms of its aging demographic, perhaps it’s already swallowed the pill to some extent, depending upon how one views the situation. Japan also doesn’t offer any access to particularly strategic resources, unless it’s plutonium stockpile could be considered such.

Petrol guard cat
#SakakiTown #Nagano #Japan
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32℃ (90°F) -- RH 80% when I left the house. 10 minutes later I'm at an elevation of over 1,000m (3,000ft) in one of my favorite enchanted forests where it's a more comfortable 25℃ (77°F) #SakakiTown #Nagano #Japan #NaturalAirconditioning #forestbathing

Stovetop roasted #coffee (roasted and brewed by yours truly) and “Seattle cookies” (homemade by the American proprietor of a local onsen ryokan) overlooking the hillside rice paddies at Obasute. #nagano #ChikumaCity #japan #CoffeeRoasting

Grapes on the vine 🍇 #SakakiTown #Nagano #Japan

Chikuma River Sakaki Rose Garden in the rain ☔️ 🥀 ⛰ #SakakiTown #Nagano #Japan #bloomscrolling

Roadside opportunism… a good haul of mulberries this morning 🍓

Baby pomegranates #bloomscrolling #Japan

Sakaki Chikuma River Rose Garden in full bloom on drizzly morning
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霧雨の朝に咲き誇る薔薇。
#SakakiTown #Nagano #Japan #長野県 #坂城町 #bloomscrolling

Our town’s rose garden is gearing up for its annual festival which promises to be prolific and well attended.
#bloomscrolling #Japan #Nagano #SakakiTown

@minorusaba gerbil kibble ☕️

@minorusaba or growing coffee as a warmer climate permits it within more places in Japan itself! ☕️ 🍵

@minorusaba too bad people back in the day of Hokusai didn’t carry pedometers 👟

Coffee at Ueda Castle
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喫茶@上田城
#上田市 #上田城 #長野県 #プチ贅沢 #Japan #Nagano #UedaCity

Now that the cherry blossoms on trees in town are all over, it is the season of mountain cherry blossoms (and sand from the Gobi desert making visibility quite low).
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黄砂の中の山桜パトロール
#坂城町 #長野県 #Japan #bloomscrolling

@minorusaba the first time I heard the expression “moshi tora”, all I could think of was that it was some kind of ironic revenge for the 1970 film “Tora! Tora! Tora!”. “Hobo Tora” is distressingly interesting for the English meaning of the word hobo.