Panasonic LX100 at an effective 50mm — 1/320 sec, f/5.6, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Getting Close, but Not Yet Peak
Iwato Ochiba Shrine (岩戸落葉神社), Kyoto Japan
I took a short ride out to check out the status of Ochiba Shrine. It's still a few days... maybe three, maybe five... from peak. It seems early this year. When I first posted about it five years ago, it was from a Dec 2 visit.
Yet, the next year I visited on Nov 14, and it was about the same as it was today (Nov 18). Maybe it takes time, because the same year I posted one of my first wigglegrams from the shrine, with full-carpet photos taken on Nov 25.
Even more surprising to me is that last year, photos from Nov 10 (on an article posted Nov 26; don't be fooled by the article date) show a pretty full carpet. So I don't really know what's “normal” for this shrine. They do have a special evening light-up event tomorrow (Nov 19), so perhaps that indicates the traditional peak?
Anyway, I'll certainly have to check in again next week.
I returned through the Takao area of north-west Kyoto, which hosts two famous temples (the Kosanji Temple / 高山寺, and the Jingoji Temple / 神護寺), visited in prior posts such as this, this and this, among others.
It was too late to visit them on this trip, and I probably wouldn't with th bike anyway (I wouldn't feel comfortable leaving the bicycle as I ventured in), but I did snap a photo from the road:
Panasonic LX100 at an effective 72mm — 1/125 sec, f/2.8, ISO 1600 — map & image data — nearby photos
Buried in Color
Saimyoji Temple / 高尾の西明寺
It turns out that it's of a temple that I didn't realize was separate from the others, called the Saimyoji Temple. I'll have to check it out some day.
To be continued...
Thank you Jeffrey for so detailed presentation and so nice pictures. I would like to visit myself these places. I already have visited many of them but going by bicycle offers you a new way to fell the beauty of the places.