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Birds on a Branch, by Watanabe Shōtei, 1916

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Seoul Museum of Art

#seoul #korea

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Yongsan

#seoul #korea #yongsan

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#seoul #peony #april

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Rainy April days

#korea #stick insect #peach blossom #azaleas #pine trees

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Windy Day, Place de la Concorde, Jean Béraud, 1890

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#seoul #korea #azaleas

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#seoul #korea #gwanaksan

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#seoul #korea #spring #cherry blossom

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I went to Jangsu, down in Jeollado, for the weekend and ran a 70km trail race with a cumulative 5,000m of ascent. It took me 17 hours. Proud of myself and grateful that my body can do that.

It was a lovely, really well organized race, with friendly people running and friendly people cheering and manning the aid stations. One lady even ran with her dog!

#jangsu #korea

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Seoullo spring

#seoul #korea #seoullo #magnolia

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Inwangsan is a never ending treasury of hidden things. I have hiked this mountain hundreds and hundreds of times but there always seems to be another path I haven't seen before with a little shrine or some old military installation. Today we have a staircase to... I am not sure what on the side of the hill. There's statue at the bottom that looks like a Buddha but is labelled as the 산왕대신 Shamanist mountain spirit (there is a lot of Buddhist/Shamanist syncretism in Korea and lots of it in evidence on this mountain), and a small collection of rocks at the top. And a very unofficial mountain-goaty track behind that leads further up the hill if you are brave enough. I was brave enough to go part of the way, but stopped when I would have to start scrambling up rocks. I know where the path ends up anyway so there was limited motivation to go further.

#inwangsan #seoul #korea

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Grey headed woodpecker

#woodpecker #seoul

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Daffodils

#namsan #spring #daffodils

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Tadpoles

#namsan #spring #tadpoles