Today is your day...

Later I will tell you about the trip we took yesterday to a surprising museum near Tokyo. But right now I'm more interested in the view outside my window.

The air is increadibly clear today. Sometimes I have trouble seeing the opposite side of the bay, but today I can practically read the names on the sides of the ships way out there. Curious at what else I could notice, I switched to my bedroom window. Usually it's nothing but trees and bare cliff faces ornamented by the huge blue crane that towers over the loading docks. Today I turned my head to the left and saw another big blue crane towering over peir 12 and behind that ... I saw something so surprising that I opened the window and screen to get a better view.

This is what I saw:

That, my friends is the famed Mt. Fuji, as seen on a clear day from CFAY Yokosuka.

How could I have never seen this before. I've been living in this apartment for almost two months and I had never noticed the icon of Japan right outside my window. Is this the clearest day we've had in two months? Or had I just never looked at the just the right angle? I had been trying so hard to get out and experience Japan, when Japan was right outside my window.

I leave you today with a quote from Dale Carnege, "All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today."