Odds and ends plus Tohoku Gakuin U campus

 This is a packaged wet towel of the kind that you often get in a restaurant to clean your hands before eating. The writing says "Ganbarou Nihon", which is hard to translate as I have pointed out but it might be "Hang in there! Japan!". You see ganbarou plus a place name in signs, posters, painted on walls, just about everywhere. They are to remind people that we are still struggling to recover from the disasters.

 This is the roof of the supermarket/department store, Seiyu,  next to our condo. They are now putting new air conditioning on the roof. The word from a person who works for Seiyu says that they are definitely reopening and fairly soon. It is now just a question of when the repairs can be finished and the store restocked. They are apparently having the same problem that many other places are having - a shortage of parts.

 This is the entrance road at Tohoku Gakuin U. I've shown these trees before, fiirst with no leaves, and then as they started to grow, and now that the new leaves are fully out.

 This is the garden that is on the other side of the road.

 That is not a rabbit. It is a bag of trash that someone tossed at the side of the walkway along the top of the levee near my apartment. This is one of the things that I definitely do not like about Japan. People tend to just drop wrappers, used bottles and that sort of thing. They often, as in this case, tie the stuff up neatly in the plastic bag that they were given when they bought it, but then they just drop the bag.

The repairs to the collapsed wall are nearing completion. The new fence is nearly finished and a little more is done on the garden each day. In the middle of the left edge of the picture, you can see a horizontal line. This is a couple of boards, resting on concrete blocks, that form a walkway from the yard to the levee top. There is a gate in the fence.  I am quite curious as to what the final construction will look like. There used to be a metal bridge, but it collapsed with the wall. I am not sure where the riverside public property ends and the private property of the land owner begins. That will make a difference in what he can do.