Hundred years ago

Over a hundred years ago we were in the 'Meiji' period, a time of radical change, of social change. A time when we started to compete to break away from the one sided treaties that western powers were forcing on many Asian nations. It's a classic show of adapt or perish. Some groups and social class, like the Samurai, did die out, they became a dying breed as they lost all of their privileges as equality for all the people became one of the keywords of the era. We sent scholars overseas to study, we formed the diet (parliament) and had our first constitution and we built up the military.
Perhaps we should have put more safeguards upon the latter?
But they were interesting times and this photograph could have been one of my ancestors, huh?

Well not really.
It is simply uploading a photograph to here:
http://labs.wanokoto.jp/olds
and making it look over 100 years old.

I think it looks like a pretty old photograph and perhaps some of you can use that site for fun too. If any of you want to send me your 100 year photo, with your permission I could put it up here.
Now please don't be shy!

I have noticed that my blog has appeared in the reading list of four other bloggers.
Living in Styles
Милая Врединка
BioChem Game
and
Catgirl

To all four of you bloggers, I would like to say Thank you very much for reading me.
Like you I love to write. I write down things that I do and things that I think and from my own perspective it is like a therapy for me. I never make it too personal and I think we all have a line that says I will tell you this much, but no more.
But the fact that you come over to read me and that some of you comment, makes me feel so good inside.
I want to thank all of you readers and commenter's.
You are the pounding of my heart and my feel good potion.

Thank you so much