Day 4458: Yukizuri & Family of Teachers.

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Yukizuri

It's November, which means it the time of year when gardeners across Japan begin preparing for snow in an activity known as yukizuri. And nowhere is this tradition more beautifully displayed than at Kenrokuen Garden in Kanazawa.

   Over 500 gardeners work through November and mid-December tying up 800 trees with a total of 4 tons of rope in radial patterns to give them extra support when it snows. 

 

 

TMI Dept.

I come from a family of teachers. Really good teachers.

We also have engineers, but this is about teachers.

 

Aunt Fern, Aunt Martha, Aunt Pauline, Aunt Vonda, Mom

Four Aunts and an Uncle all outstanding teachers.

The kind that talk about school even in the summer!

Enough so that I was pretty sure I didn't want to be a teacher.

But then I married a coach/teacher and became a teacher.

Now after fifty plus years of teaching,

I have determined that I was a pretty good teacher.

You see I do believe in angels. I do.

And if at anytime I wasn't a good teacher,

I believe one of my angels would nudge me back into place.

So, I guess I had to be a teacher.

 

 

So there.

 

  

 

A 1+ minute video, Travel with group, here

 

 

 

  

 

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Vermillion Flycatcher

 

 

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