State of the Maple Update

"Wash left hand, then right hand, then rinse your mouth." Instructions for entering Ueno Koen's shrine spiritually cleansed (but only if you're wearing pink)

In State of the Maple news, Ueno Koen is a little thin on the ground with ye merry maple. Plenty of those yellow thingamies (what are those trees?) and a stack of cats and blue tarp communities, though.

The typhoon didn't help of course. Mother Nature has bent us all over and lovingly rogered us on that front. Whoever heard of a typhoon in December?