Izumi Tanaka

I didn’t shoot today.  Oh, no!  But I had three shoots this week; two photos and one video.  So I think I give myself a little break.

While I was shooting my friend’s kitty, Toonces, I noticed her bedroom was filled with this soft light.  My bedroom gets a little bit of sun in the morning, but that’s it, and I so want a sun filled room.  One day soon……

On my walk this morning I noticed the cherry blossoms I took pictures of last week are much open now.

I don’t know exactly what kind of cherry blossoms they are (I actually don’t even know if they’re cherries), but they sure are pretty….

We took down all the pictures when we painted our walls last month before the holidays.

Now they’ve been sitting on the floor as we keep talking about putting them back up “next weekend”…….

These are media credentials mostly from the ’90s when I used to work with Japanese media a lot.  Some of them have some interesting memories attached to them; thus, still hanging on the hallway door of my office.

O.K. I cheated.  I didn’t shoot this picture today, but I found it as I was going through my archive.

They are infinitely curious of what’s going on outside the screen door, but when I let them out they only go so far and come running back in when a stranger passes by or something.  Oh, such is a life of indoor kitties….

In between the downpour, the blue sky peeks in.

Nothing like a winter storm in Southern California…

Even though it’s still feeling very much like winter in Southern California, I noticed there’s already some signs of spring.

I’m so fascinated by such intricate “designs” of these dainty blossoms…

Everytime I come home from somewhere I look for Riley in the window.

He’s not always there, but most of the time he is.

I don’t know if he knows when I’m getting there or he just happens to be sitting at the window…

I'm digitizing the VHS tapes on my shelf these days

I had two bookshelf full of VHS tapes from two decades of work I was involved and miscellaneous movies and programs.  I probably copied more than 50 tapes.   And I figure if I hadn’t touched some of those tapes in more than 10  years, I probably don’t need to copy them.  About 20 of them fell into that category.