Photography

* Girl walking her dog in Yoshii town * She stopped to smile as I walked nearby * Full disclosure: I may be

* The Hour That Stretches * Read no longer goes on due to illness of the former host * This reader stunned the

* In the Yoshimatsu household, in a town called Yoshii. * Cicadas audible at all times; more frogs than you can count

* Near our Couchsurfing host's place, on the other side of the bus-stop hedge * Parking lot was for a

* In a park just north of downtown Copenhagen * Middle of the 2014 Copenhagen Jazz Festival; music could be heard everywhere

* The silence of the waterfront was as haunting as the incoming clouds * (clouds wound up burning off) * Inexplicable lone train

* Left Missoula, MT at 10:00 AM * Took "short detour" on the way to Rapid City, SD, to