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Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/320 sec, f/2.5, ISO 720 — map & image data — nearby photos
Checking the Back Door
「山の家はせがわ」(Yama no Ie Hasegawa), Kyoto Japan

I ended my previous post, Kyoto Mountain Restaurant “Yama no Ie Hasegawa”, commenting that I wanted to take Fumie to the middle-of-nowhere restaurant I'd visited the other day with Paul Barr, after having seen it mentioned on a friend's blog. I did that today, visiting for lunch with Fumie and Anthony.

We sat out on the enclosed-for-the-winter porch.

After our delicious lunch, I got out my camera, Fumie had a cup of coffee, and Anthony clowned around...

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 @ 24 mm — ¹/320 sec, f/1.4, ISO 320 — map & image data — nearby photos

When a cat started meowing loudly just outside the porch, Anthony went over and meowed back. Back and forth they had a conversation....

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 @ 24 mm — ¹/125 sec, f/5, ISO 1250 — map & image data — nearby photos
Conversations

There was a cat-entrance flap, so the cat could have come in whenever he wanted, but seemed content to chat with Anthony from outside.

Across from the restaurant is a hillside with a rope that Anthony found inviting to climb...

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 @ 24 mm — ¹/125 sec, f/3.2, ISO 320 — map & image data — nearby photos
Grabbing the Rope

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 cropped — ¹/250 sec, f/2.5, ISO 640 — map & image data — nearby photos
Starting Up

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/125 sec, f/2.5, ISO 320 — map & image data — nearby photos
Now Easy Going

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/125 sec, f/2.5, ISO 280 — map & image data — nearby photos
Backing Back Down

There are a lot of trails in the area, and we took one that led right above where Anthony was climbing the rope...

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 @ 50 mm — ¹/125 sec, f/4, ISO 1600 — map & image data — nearby photos
Restaurant From Across the Way
frankly, it looks much nicer inside

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/125 sec, f/2.5, ISO 450 — map & image data — nearby photos
Enclosed Porch
we sat at the left-most table

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/125 sec, f/5.6, ISO 2000 — map & image data — nearby photos
Sort Of Christmassy Colors
the green fuzzy plants seemed like some kind of freaky “evergreen spider vine” I'd not seen before

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 @ 24 mm — ¹/125 sec, f/1.4, ISO 450 — map & image data — nearby photos
Steep

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 @ 24 mm — ¹/320 sec, f/1.4, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Towering

On the way back, at the entrance to the path I noticed a tree covered with plastic strips, wrapped tightly with wire...

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/250 sec, f/5.6, ISO 3200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Bound

I suppose this was here (near the parking lot) as an easy-to-access example of what they do with some of the tree farming in this area. If you're not familiar with why they'd wrap a tree in these white plastic strips, I wrote about it last year in “More Discoveries with Nils: Mountain Roads and Spooky Forests”.