what do you see?

Thanks for the comments everyone. And I agree with SJT- the connecting with culture's thoughts on the events of the last week are very helpful. Follow my link above if you want to read it.

Re. our trip to Aomori, I still haven't written anything about it, but I've put a few pictures on Flickr (which I've finally got round to using) - see this page for the relevant batch. I'm going to transfer the other photoalbums over sooner or later too.