Yesterday I went to the Starbucks drive-thru to pick up an iced latte for myself and a frappuccino for my Slacker twin. I groaned when I arrived because the line was pretty long and I could tell there was also a crowd inside. I had my iPhone, though, so easy enough to pass the ti...
We wandered past bare-limbed trees strung with hot pink lights and through bamboo at Shōmu-en (the Japanese “pine-mist garden”). Seen from the viewing pavilion, raked gravel patterns mimicked flowing water and drifts of smokebush hinted at morning mist rising between pine-clad hills. We ...