When we arrived home last night, the new houses across the street were under wraps. Big blue tarps stretched across them to hide them from view. That’s a normal practice during construction since buildings in Tokyo are so close together, the tarps keep construction grime off the neighbors.

But in this case, I think that maybe they were trying to hide something other than dust and dirt.

By this morning, wind had loosened some of the tarps and I could peek through to see the buildings underneath. In our absence, workers have begun to apply the finishing touches to the buildings, including stucco on the outer walls.

The buildings are citrus colored. One is lemon yellow, the other is bright orange.

Luckily these houses are outside my kitchen window so I will arrange a tableau of real citrus fruits on the windowsill to coordinate the picture. An orange house… Posted by kuri at December 12, 2000 07:27 AM