P P P P Pink!

These are taken last month when flowers were blooming beautifully around here in NJ. The season of most of these flowers already passed and now the color green is covering up the trees. Anyway, I just wanted to show the pink ones, because they were so lovely, and made me feel so "Pink" while jogging in the morning. :-) Although I was almost caught as "breaking & entering" twice, I guess it was worth the effort. (People seem a little neurotic around here.... of course they let me continue as soon as they found out it was me taking photos though....)

I guess I'm going to use them in my art somewhere later on ;-) (I already have one of them.)











And of course.... <333333

Love, Yoshika

Photos of Dog Paradise

New photos are added to the slide show of "Come Walk With Me" NYC Dog Walking Tour. Please see them at Chelsea and Midtown South.
Now it has become over 200 photos. Though I might add some later if I take some really good ones. But otherwise, I think this project is finished now.

Found "Dog Paradise"!





Found dog baby too!

And they posed for me, later :-)
Check them out at "Come Walk With Me" NYC Dog Walking Tour.


Love, Yoshika

I'll Miss New York...

*~* New York In The Rain *~*





These were taken a couple days ago in NYC. On my way home it started raining. Though I am basically not a huge fan of rainy days, somehow that day it looked so beautiful and I really liked watching people walking on the streets in the rain. I guess it suits my feelings right now, especially the third one. There are already certain amount of light, tranquility in me. But, I am absolutely sure that I will miss New York for a long time...:-)

Love, Yoshika

Receive my heart <33333

Sending lots of love from Spring in NJ



Love, Yoshika

My Tribute to Life

As you may already know, Recently I was working on a little photo project "Come Walk With Me" NYC Dog Walking Tour which required me to walk around NYC. And as extention of it, (embarrasingly,) I finally visited Ground Zero for the first time in 6 and a half years after the attack. Since I felt something that I never thought I would while visiting there, though it's not even around the anversary day, I couldn't help writing the blog, "My Tribute to Life"
I have to say, this blog may not be for those who are at the stage in their lives where they do not want to look back what happened on September 11th 2001 now. Although I did avoid taking the photos that were too sad, the ones I took at the tribute gallery might still make you emotional in some ways.
So, only if you like, please visit the blog at my personal profile and read the blog.







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And I have also added 30 more new photos of Downtown NY to the slide show, NYC Dog Walking Tour on my blog, Please check it out as well!


Armed officer talking with a traveler on Wall St.



Near China Town

Love, Yoshika

Come Walk With Me --- My NYC Dog Walking Tour ---

This nice weather inspired me to work on this photo project "Come Walk With Me" --NYC Dog Walking Tour --. Although I want to show the slide show on this blog too, I set the size of the slide show big for the better view. I don't think it fits on this blog. So, please check out the slide show on my myspace blog showing over 150 photos of dog walkers in NYC and some NYC photos :-)







Hope you have a lovely new week.

Love, Yoshika

Sakura Namiki in NYC

Chelsea is my favorite part of Manhattan. While walking the area a couple days ago, I found the Sakura blossom streets :-) The last one is West Village.









Chelsea is one of the places in Manhattan that I have lived before. It was not for long. But, I did spend one spring while living there... What a shame....I didn't know that there were lovely Sakura streets....

Love, Yoshika

Yo.Za.Ku.Ra (Night Sakura) in Manhattan

Well, it seems the weather is getting nicer and nicer these days. When I visited Central Park about a week ago (on March 30th), it still looked and felt like winter than spring. Here is the proof.



And this was taken in my area in NJ on the same day.



But, when I visited Manhattan yesterday I saw 30%~50% of Sakura buds already opened on Upper East side, and Upper West 80% of them already blooming. It is strange...I used to live in Manhattan for several years. But, this might be the first time I really appreciated Sakura blossoms on the streets of NY. So, I had to take some pictures.

Yo.Za.Ku.Ra (Night Sakura) in Manhattan




Love, Yoshika