I still haven't gone through all my photos from yesterday's trip to the garden at Kyoto's Eikando Temple, but I wanted to show a few more, so here are some from the middle of the batch. Like yesterday's most of these are best appreciated with a large, wide-gamut monitor.

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I visited today the Eikando Temple gardens, nestled in the base of the mountains at the far east of Kyoto, about a 15-minute walk from our place. I'd been there before and thought it was really pretty, but I must have been stupid or blind (or on parenting duty with an impatient kid to look after) because today it was FREAKING MIND-BLOWING AMAZING.

Just *WOW*.

My photos don't even come close to doing it justice.

The temple is famous for its fall colors, as I found out the first time I drove by during the proper season, posted in "Colorful [...]

We went out for a family bike ride today, sort of repeating our bike outing last May, though today was quite brisk... cold, windy, mostly overcast with occasional moments of bright sun.

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Anthony got a big Star Wars™ LEGO™ toy for his birthday, and combined with the various other LEGO™ kids he's gotten before, he has a huge collection of pieces and parts.

This morning before school he used various pieces to build a little fighter craft, as he's done many times before, but today's seemed cute because it seated three characters (in this case, three Republic Clone Soldiers) like peas in a pod.

I'd taken off the cockpit canopy window for those shots; of course, a spaceship has a canopy and Anthony included it, but it made for difficult photography (even [...]

Like any kid, I suppose, Anthony certainly loves getting new toys. He turned 7 years old recently, and enjoyed opening presents at his little party. But a present from my baby brother and his wife arrived later, and we kept it secret for a while until Anthony's busy school schedule allowed enough time to enjoy it.

I was impressed again that he actually looked at the card. At this age I don't think I ever did, except perhaps to look to see whether it contained money. 🙂  He could read his name, but didn't know what the squiggly underline was [...]