When writing up the post about my son's samurai costume the other day, I forgot that we'd taken some pictures while visiting our friends Zan and J down in Cincinnati a month or so ago, and when we were playing down in the creek bed behind their house and saw the amazing "samurai castle" house up the creek, we had to snap some pictures (it's actually the house that architect Ben Dombar designed for himself on an lovely little road full of beautiful mid-century houses).