Enough ugliness...

...for one day.

Shakyamuni, Ankokuronji
Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture
May 27, 2007

Ichimonji Limenitis camilla, Myōhōji
Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture
May 27, 2007

Sleeping Cat, Myōhonji
Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture
May 27, 2007

Blossoming vine, Shōeiji
Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture
May 27, 2007

Shell gatherers, Yuigahama
Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture
May 27, 2007

News reports say that Sakai Izumi, the secretive and ravishingly lovely lead vocalist of the group ZARD has died after "a fall down a flight of stairs" on Saturday at the hospital where she had been undergoing treatment for uterine cancer since June of last year.

Sakai Izumi (birthname: Kamachi Sachiko) was 40.

The long wave, Yuigahama
Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture
May 27, 2007