We're on a short three-day Golden Week trip, visiting Awaji Island. We'll probably visit the Awaji Flower Review tomorrow, as we did once last year.

I mentioned the other day in my post about some drama on Mt. Daimonji that I'd hiked with Anthony. Here are some shots from the first part of the hike.

Unlike the last time we did this three years ago, when I had to carry him most of the way, this time he could handle himself, so I was free to bring my new big lens, and decided to give my little-used monopod a try as well.

To be continued...

During the return home after yesterday's Daimonji hike, Anthony and I stopped for a cake at a cafe we found along the way, Cafe Gremer. The cake was great, and the home-made lemonade (with lemons from the backyard!) was superb, but the interior of the shop was very dark and gloomy, right out of a fairytale nightmare, immediately bringing to mind the worry that we might be devoured by a hermit witch.

But a tiny frosted window immediately behind our seats was getting hit by direct sunlight, splashing a luxuriously delicious glow onto the tasteful flower arrangement on the table, [...]

I was shocked today when out of the blue Anthony said that he wanted to climb Mt. Daimonji, a rather short bump of a mountain on the east side of Kyoto noted for the big “大" on its side, visible from most everywhere in Kyoto, and coincidentally appearing on my blog just the other day (but described in more detail in my "Daimonji's Hidoko Fire Pits" post from several years ago).

Anthony had hiked this mountain three years ago (where in this case "hiked" meant "was carried by daddy" for much of it) and had shown no interest since until [...]

I posted the picture above, of a spotlight on a rock garden in Kyoto, in my "Amorphous Wavy Lines Quiz" post last week, asking whether anyone knew the reason for the wavy lines one sees at full resolution:

The answer differs depending on how honest you are with yourself. In my case, the true answer is

"I don't know."

Being a bit less honest with myself, I'll say

"Likely some kind of diffraction, possibly related to the "discrete points" nature of the image sensor, but I'm not sure"

But if I want to completely fool myself into thinking [...]