the crow's nest

We're back in Tokyo after two weeks in British Columbia.

One of the last things we did in BC was to buy some binoculars.

One of the uses that Mari wanted to put the binoculars to was to have a good look at the crow's nest across the way from our place. She did so last night and told me, "it has coat hangers". I had a look this morning and saw that she'd understated the case .. it was *entirely* comprised of coat hangers!

We had rather a lot of wind here in Tokyo in September (one of the trees in the area blew down—doesn't sound like much by BC standards, but it is one of only perhaps twenty) and I wonder if all of the other building materials simply blew away at that time.