Lemon Yellow

It's spring time and so I want to surround myself with all things lemon yellow and cornflower blue!

Urban Outfitters Wants:

So much stuff I want, but 1. I don't need and 2. I can't afford after having just returned from overseas!

L-R: wooden clutch bag, mint pleated skirt, tan peep toes, world map.

the virgin suicides by jeffrey eugenides, patterned shoulder bag, crochet jumpsuit, geometrical terrerium.

woven patterned shorts, world map watch, tortoise shell sunglasses, geometric oxfords.

Japan 2012 in Pictures

 Sakura in Ueno Park

 Kittens in a sakura tree, Ueno Park

 Sakura

 Onsen on Mt Fuji

 Yukata 

 Yoshimizu, our accommodation

 Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto

 Matcha (green tea) kit kat!

 Maiko - traineee geisha in Kyoto

 Pretty paper

 Kingyo (goldfish) for sale at a market in Kyoto

 Toji temple pagoda

 Kyoto Towe

 Deer roaming the street in Nara

 I got bitten by one! Whilst attempting to rescue my friends bag from the mouth of a deer it nipped me! (not this deer)

 The Todaiji, the worlds biggest wooden structure

 Taiyaki; a fish shaped cake filled with custard (or chocolate, adzuki bean paste etc)

 Making friends in the cat cafe

 Arashiyama bamboo grove

 The Golden Pavillion, Kinkakuji

 Rooftops of Kyoto

 Scenery in Arashiyama

 Fushimi Inari Tori gates

 View from a tea house, where we partook in a green tea ceremony

 Zen garden

 Hikone Castle and surrounding gardens

 Closeup of Hikone castle

 Spring in the Kyoto Botanical Gardens

 Sakura...again

 Bonsai

 Shojin Ryori - traditional Buddhist vegetarian cuisine

 Closeup of the shojin ryori, we had this whilst staying at a buddhist temple

 The Daito on Mt Koya

 Tea houses on the lake at Kenrokuen Garden

 Red umbrella at Kenrokuen garden

 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art (quite a mouthful) in Kanazawa

 Free tea with gold leaf!

 Skiers at Nozawa Onsen

 A ski lodge a Nozawa Onsen

 Me at Nozawa Onsen!

 Riding the gondola

 The view I had whilst brushing my teeth at our lodge in Nozawa Onsen

 Mameshiba, grape flavoured alcohol and chocolate bread!

 Pretty tatami patterns

 On the gondola again

 Faaaaaake sushi!

 Little garden on the pavement in Tokyo

 Dinner at the Park Hyatt hotel, aka the bar from Lost in Translation

 Fugu! poisonous blowfish, a delicay in Japan

 Tokyo & the SkyTree

 Studio Ghibli Museum

 Pretty temple in Mitaka

 Lanterns advertising the Ueno Park Sakura Festival

 Plastic display food

 Rainy day in Shibuya

 The Ueno Park Sakura Festival

 Tokyo SkyTree and the Asahi Beer Headquarters

 Onsen on Mt Fuji

 Sensoji Temple, Tokyo

 Essentials

Temple Garden