171/365: Dec 22 2008. Street performer in the park.

172/365: Dec 23 2008. The streets in my 'hood.

173/365: Dec 24 2008. I will miss the superb presentation of Japanese products. This is a bottle of nihonshu my student Keiko gave me for my Christmas day nabe party.

174/365: Dec 25 2008. Christmas Day. Tonyu Nabe. Great people, great food, great sounds, a great day. You can see more pictures from my Christmas day at the facebook album.

175/365: Dec 26 2008. I was bored and listless, and decided it was time to try out some cool lighting tricks and do some self-portraits at the same time. I also edited the photos from this shoot in photoshop, something quite unusual for moi, I usually stay away from PS, just using Lightroom, but I am beginning to accept that there are some things that PS can do that LR can't. And that is a good, fun thing.

176/365: Dec 27 2008. Love these little grass-chokers the trees wear in winter. They are trying to stop insects from crawling up into the upper parts of the tree and burrowing into the newer, softer parts. Or at least, that's what I've heard....

177/365: Dec 28 2008. Kat & Jake came over to hang out for the afternoon. Jake quite enjoyed the hoop - not as much as his mum did though. :)