Showing posts with label City. Show all posts
Showing posts with label City. Show all posts

Saturday, February 22, 2014

It was Sort of Like a City Folks Hoedown

Not Just Women Dancing with Horses

 

 

There were a dozen or so, gals in kimonos, dancing with wooden, hobby horse looking things.

Back in the good old days, I bet they were riding real horses.

Equines are probably forbidden now, at the Juri-uma Parade because it's within the city limits.

But, they had other gals, doing folk dances, that any country boy would enjoy.

folk dancing on stage

 Some of them came out on the stage hootin' and hollerin' barefooted.

traditional dance Okinawa

 They were smiling, stomping their feet and, swinging those blades.

Okinawa folk dance

Just when you think, it can't get no better than this, it does.

Ryukyu dance
The gal in charge of those with sickles and sticks, got them all off the stage.

dancing with hoes

And here's where the real hoedown stuff begins.

dancing with hoes

These girls were barefoot, smiling and dancing, too.

dancing with hoes

But, they were swinging some pretty authentic looking hoes.

Tell me, that don't remind you of a good old country hoedown !






Sunday, September 30, 2012

Photo of the Week: From Itoman Okinawa

It's been a few days since anything got posted here or, on the website.

Just a quick  photo from Itoman's Tug-O-War and I have to get going.

There are hundreds more photos from the event, plus some typhoon damage pictures to work on.

More about Typhoon Jelawat, later.

All is well with the Ryukyu Crowd and it was great seeing the sun shine yesterday.

There will be some things to show and tell you about the Itoman City folks, too.

They are awesome !


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Friday, January 27, 2012

Flower Photo: Sakura (桜) Cherry Blossoms in Naha Okinawa !

Sometimes the Sakura (桜) show up in places you'd least expect to find them on Okinawa.

Today I was way down south in the capital city when I stumbled across these flowers blooming.

There are probably a million people living down there in Naha that don't even realize they have Cherry Blossoms growing just about in their back yards.

Here I've been hunting all over the northern mountain areas and freezing in my flip flops and there isn't one Cherry Blossom in my hometown, yet.  Dagnabbit !

It's hard to decide whether or not to reveal the location to those city folks.

Hmm...

OK, I'll just give them a hint.

These Sakura (桜) were discovered, today, somewhere in Naminoue.

Y'all city people will have to go outside yer houses to find them.

My recommendation: Wear socks with your flip flops because it's cold out there.

That's all I got to say !


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