Four views of my home

The 2008 calendar on my office wall was of Japanese woodblock prints from the 17th to 19th centuries. I found these two large frames sitting empty in the garage, so I cropped the calendar pictures and inserted them into the frames. The result is hanging in our dining area:



The theme of the left frame is rivers and bridges. The right frame's theme is Mount Fuji, as shown in this close up:



Some of pictures I didn't have the heart to crop because they worked better as a whole. For them I found some nice 8x10 frames on sale and now they hang near our front door:



The print on the upper left is a popular image of wave towering over boat and mountain. The print in the bottom center is of a waterfall, and is a favorite of mine with its tourists standing above and below.



One of the things that I like about these woodblock prints of landscapes is the combination of the foreground's fine detail and the background's somewhat abstracted shapes and colors. My imagination resides in between.

I'll need more frames when the time comes to display pictures from the 2009 calendar.