How I spent today
It was a nice day, and the next few days are all forecast to be rain, and Chie was feeling more like curling up in front of the TV doing nothing than going out and doing stuff, so (with her blessing) I took my bike out into the countryside for a bit.
Instead of what I normally do when I do things like that, which is to see how many prefectures I can manage to encounter in a single ride (I consider such rides successful if I hit four of ’em, counting Tokyo as a prefecture), I decided to explore some of the more hilly country-ish bits of Saitama.
Final tally: 220km (plus epsilon for me to get to the gas station—ten or so, I believe). And some lovely photographs. You might think my camera exaggerates the greens, but it doesn’t. They’re actually slightly more vivid in person than the camera can record without making them look plasticky and artificial. (Maybe they’ll look better if someone makes hexachrome sensors and displays—possibly for the benefit of mantis shrimp.)