It was raining quite a lot the evening before and probably due to the 3/11 disaster, many understandably did not respond to the invitation. So ordering food was easy and since this ceremony also included praying for all the victims from the EarthQ/ Tsunami, we made little gifts for the guests. (^^)
Anyway just 5 minutes before, people started to tickle in and continue to come 5 minutes after the ceremony! (No, it is not good to come in later for a formal ceremony I was really happy some were running into Honbu!)
It was great energy because more than for me, a lot of these people have not seen each other for one reason or another.... and each had their own version of saying the missed each other and reminisced the old days.
I missed a lot of opportunity to take great pic's b/c I was running about.... ;@; but some picture's are uploaded on mas-oyama.com so please take a look.
Scrubbing the grave..... ^^ so many incense was burned over the past few days the incense plate was black and tarred!
Cats napping in the sun.... at the temple...
