It's been a busy few days since I posted “Weeping Cherry at Kyoto’s Ryouanji Temple (龍安寺)”. I came down with a cold, my wife performed in a local production of Swan Lake, and I recovered from my cold, in that unfortunate order. No time to even look at the photos from the other day beyond a quick glace at the top of the stack, so here are a few more from the start of that outing...

After all the buds and blossoms I posted last month (such as here, here, and here), I told myself I'd concentrate more on shots of folks enjoying the blossoms, rather than the blossoms themselves, and we saw that posts here, here, and here. But I couldn't help myself, so here we have some more blossom shots....

I passed a tourist going the other way that I had to return to ask for a portrait...

15 seconds from start to end, but having missed focus a bit, I could have used 20 seconds.

Moving into a small grove on the far west of the temple grounds, we found the landscaping crew at work...

I take it that they had just pruned the trees, and were now applying some kind of protective salve over the cuts.

This was the area with the gorgeous, towering weeping cherry. Here's a vertical version of the previous post's image...

It was a visual feast for the camera... I hope some of my shots came out. We'll see.

Continued here...