This may seem like a strange thing to blog about...

My beautiful motherland.

...but I went to Canada to visit my family as it had been about a year since I had been away. The time has flown by this year, for the most part. I wonder how year 2 will feel.

Anyway, because this is not just read by my Mum (Hi Mum!!! *waves*), I thought I would stick up a few photos from that whirlwind tour.

Heh... I know I should be working on getting through my holiday posts...

... but I've been toying with tattoo ideas again and decided to play with GIMP to try and get them out of my brain...

This one came out pretty cool with this filter...

Aomori Prefecture with a Triforce marking Shichinohe