[click on the image]Mt. Fuji of January 1, 2008 [100 kilo meters far]
(Mt. Fuji le 1er janvier 2008)
Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Gen 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Gen 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Gen 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
Gen 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Gen 1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
Gen 1:7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
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This morning I could get and take Mt. Fuji, snowcapped, into my sight and also into a camera as shown above.
(So, they are the first pictures of Mt. Fuji taken in 2008 and made public to the world.)
It was a nice and clear winter day. Not many cars were running. The ground of a field was partly white with frost. Somebody was sitting on the roadside of a ramp, taking video pictures of Mt. Fuji. Somebody was riding on a bicycle. Somebody was hang-gliding. Cormorants were floating and diving into water of a big river very slowly flowing into Tokyo today. A grandmother was walking hand in hand with a very young grandson, descending a ramp.
Now it is past the noon of January 1, 2008, the holiest holiday for the Japanese race, regardless of wealth possessed by individuals.
Most of people must be paying their first visit of the year to a shrine nearby or notable.
To your surprise, I also like to visit a shrine; I will probably also pay my first visit to a shrine some time soon, though Mt. Fuji itself is the main body of a shrine.
(A Happy New Year, Personally!)
"...new wine must be poured into fresh wine-skins..."
(...neuer Wein gehort in neue Schlauche!...)