First, the flora and fauna. I love flowers.
Lee enjoyed seeing the first ever electric generation plant in Japan, still up and running.
And this shows the pin stocks (pipes that deliver high pressure water to the turbines, to help generate electricity). We are sharing this in honor of EPIS. We love all things power generation.
And I must comment on the brooms. Here they are hanging from entrances of 400-year old homes, but these brooms are everywhere else in modern-day Japan. I see them on trucks of people who do yard work. I see people using then in their yards and on their walks. I see them in stores, for sale. They must be effective, but it's hard for me to imagine they can be as good as the brooms we have in the US. Aren't they cute?
Lee also was looking for, and found, the oldest all wooden bridge in Japan, spanning over the Kiso River.
And we enjoyed not only the beauty, but the coolness of several waterfalls.
And I almost forgot a few names of beauty shops: Hair Make Equipe, Samsom & Delilah Hair (Now that gives one food for thought!), and Pigtail. Love these names!
