Michael’s favorites
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Waiting for a Snack
Photo by Amelia Quicke, 9 May 2008
These gulls are hovering waiting for a crust of bread
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Convoy
Photo by Amelia Quicke, 9 May 2008
Flocks of geese call the Swift Creek Resevoir at Sunday Park home
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Decisions decisions
Photo by Keith Graff, 1 May 2008
the hardest part of buying a snack at a festival in Japan is deciding what to buy. First of all its all delicious and secondly, well, its all delicious!
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Yattai Umai!
Photo by Keith Graff, 1 May 2008
A festival food stand or Matsuri Yattai. Here you can find everything from fried squid and octopus to the more familiar fresh roasted sweet corn from Hokkaido or the ever popular Corn Dogs known to the locals as "American Dogs!" Everything smells as good as it looks and tastes even better.
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The Cool Spot
Photo by Keith Graff, 1 May 2008
Visitors here are sprayed with a fine mist of cold water to cool them off on a hot day. Streamers and banners strung up throughout are in celebration of Kodomo no hi, Children's Day.
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Jaws
Photo by Keith Graff, 1 May 2008
To celebrate Kodomo-no-hi, People normally put out stringers of Carp called Koi no bori. Obviously somebody here had a sense of humor by putting out this one.
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Too Many to Count
Photo by Keith Graff, 30 April 2008
More than 500 Koi banners on display in tiny Oku village Okinawa, Japan. They're all up in celebration of the big "Kodomo-no-hi" Children's Day celebration.
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Still Setting Up
Photo by Keith Graff, 30 April 2008
The banners are up, the temporary bridge over the creek (just out of view) is ready and the temporary stage (foreground) is all thats left to ready this little village for their big annual celebration.
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Swimming in the Breeze
Photo by Keith Graff, 30 April 2008
Koi no Bori "Carp Banners" float lazily in the breeze in the tiny village of Oku on the far northern coast of Okinawa Japan.
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The Big One
Photo by Keith Graff, 1 May 2008
Koi banners in every color and size grace the river valley in Oku village. The giant one in the foreground is in the neighborhood of 5 meters in length or about 16 feet from head to tail.
