NEW APARTMENT PHOTOS

These are some recent shots of my new apartment about half way between Kobe and Nishinomiya. I moved in the last day of October. I'm in the bottom apartment of only two! (The Japanese-Chinese neighbors upstairs attend my church in Kobe and have been very helpful ...)

My view from the kitchen window ...



The Shinto 'torii' gate on the north end of our parking lot. It leads to a shrine back in the woods up a staircase.



The view from the west side across a bridge. The red Japanese maple is right outside my office window - and yes, the leaves are still changing the first of December here!



A view fromthe south side showing the torii gate in the distance and the wooded mountains behind ...