Manseki and I rode into the mountains of northwest Kyoto to check out some roads I found on the map that we'd never ridden, but in trying to continue after a rest pause, I found my rear tire was flat. It must have been a slow leak of some sort.

Once on our way, we came to the first road to check out, which starts here.

Like so many of Kyoto's rural roads, it was lovely.

We tried both. The one toward the left quickly became gravel so we abandoned it.

The other continued nicely...

And then I got a [...]

I've been singularly uninspired to post lately, but had hoped that the typhoons I mentioned two weeks ago would create some dynamic weather, which might make for some interesting shots like this. It took a week before slow-moving Typhoon #12 ("Talas") arrived, but it veered west at the last minute and so unfortunately there wasn't much in the way of "interesting" in Kyoto. Even more unfortunately, there was way too much "interesting" in some areas 100 miles away where they got, literally, two feet of rain (24.5 inches) in 24 hours, and with it the accompanying flooding, landslides, and high [...]

Continuing with my series on my brother-in-law's wedding a week ago, the previous post, "Shogo and Namiko's Wedding: Reception, Part II", many drinks and photo ops gave way to the cutting-of-the cake ceremony, after which the couple were to step out to prepare for the next phase of the event. Part of this "stepping out" involved the bride and groom each being individually escorted out.

Namiko's escort was her mother's mother, and above was when she had gone to collect her granddaughter.

I did a good job with the photo above achieving what I was attempting at the time, which [...]

Today's post is an essentially-random collection of pictures.

A view of Mt. Fuji, taken with my point-n-shoot from the window of a shinkansen (bullet train) traveling at about 250kph. This was from a trip about a year ago to Tokyo to see Kousuke Atari in concert.

A point of trivia: I believe the river you can see in the background is an electrical dividing line: household current to the east of the river (Tokyo, Nagano, Sapporo...) is 50Hz, while that to the west (Kyoto, Osaka, Nagoya, Hiroshima, Amami....) is 60Hz. The difference matters less with modern equipment, but old clocks [...]