This is a photo of a photograph by Ishiuchi Miyako. One of her many beautiful and poignant works on display at the Spirits Rising: Hiroshima exhibit at the Portland Japanese Gardens.
"...documenting cherished items and clothing left behind by victims of the atomic bomb detonated in Hiroshima at the close of World War II that are now housed at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum."
More about her work can be found here.
We've been in Oregon for a few days visiting family. The gardens were part of a lovely day with K.'s sister. I hadn't been there in decades.
The Heavenly Falls. (To see & hear them in action go here.)
It was a bright sunny cold day, and I don't know how to adjust for that with the phone camera, so please imagine all of the lush green that surrounded us.
There was a view over downtown Portland, looking towards Mt. Hood.
Such a blue sky.
