Mom's ghost and comet

My late mother in front of the Hale-Bopp comet, c. 1997. Long exposure with flash.

 

Narita, Japan, 1998

 I guess I've been to Japan three times - I passed through it going back and forth to Malaysia in the fall of 1998 and Thailand and as a destination in 2000.

I didn't have time to see Japan the first time, and the return I only had a bit of a layover - enough to take the train to Narita city and quickly see a temple. I had to use a cheap camera that I bought after I broke mine. I got out of the station and happened on the temple.

Naritasan Shinsho-ji

真言宗智山派 成田山 新勝寺 :

The street leading up to the temple looked like it had been a tourist destination for centuries. A shopkeeper said 'Good Morning' to me in English as he opened his shop for the day.

 

Fire in Akwesasne, 1990s

I think this is a prescribed burn as it happened a few times in the early Spring. Akwesasne, 1990s

 

Mushrooms

  Maybe Dryad's saddle (Cerioporus squamosus) mushrooms

Mink, Guelph Lake Dam

Mink near Guelph Lake dam, 1990s

 

Telephone Road, near Lake Ontario

Some time in the 1990s - Telephone Road runs parallel to the 401 and Lake Ontario's shoreline. The only thing of any note near it is The Big Apple roadside attraction. Just a beautiful road - I turned onto it from the 401 because of the song 'Telegraph Road' by Dire Straits. I just read that the song is about the road in Detroit where Krystal spent part of the end of her life in a dirtball motel in the early 2020s as a heroin addict. There's a woman walking down it in the distance. Krystal would have been in high school or even grade school when the picture was taken. The song was released when she was a baby. 

The song was about a road that was first place a settler started a home, and developed into a major thoroughfare, but really something named Telegraph Road would have had to have been a road built for accessing a telegraph line.

 

Devils Tower, Wyoming

Devil's Tower, Wyoming