Well, after the once-in-a-lifetime Sunset last week, I've been hoping to cheat death and see a second one, and to do so from a better vantage point. I've taken to sprinting up to the Shogunzuka overlook if a nice sunset looks to be brewing. I've done it three times now, the first having been the day after, and the most recent today.

I arrived just in time to watch a fiery orange/red – seen above – disappear from over the mountains to the west.

Of course, as I've been complaining a lot about of late, the image doesn't really capture [...]

I quite like the post I published on Saturday evening (How I Spent My Saturday in Kyoto), and was sort of disappointed not to get any comments on it.

I did get some comments on the followup, More From the Eikando Temple Foliage Lightup, including one that mentioned that the link to the Saturday post was broken. The links worked fine for me, and "Dmitry" didn't include any contact info with the comment for me to follow up with, so I just deleted the comment as spurious.

18+ hours later, I received a followup comment from Dmitry about the broken [...]
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I've been so busy of late that I haven't posted much from Anthony's birthday when he turned six years old, but since my primary intent for this blog is to give me something to remember when I finish going senile, I'll go ahead now and put some more memories from his birthday.

Anthony received a helicopter that he had picked form himself, but as an extra surprise, he received another helicopter from Mommy and Daddy, a Lego helicopter with a bazillion parts...

During our trip to The States and back, Anthony received a number of small Lego car sets (like [...]

A few more shots from yesterday evening's visit to the Eikando Temple's lightup event....

In the shot above, you can see a lady in a kimono slightly left of center, holding up her cell phone to photograph the red leaves. She's the one in this shot from yesterday. I tried to include her in my pictures while she was taking pictures, because generally speaking, I like the kimono. I realize now, though, that you can't really see the kimono in the closer shots (some taken at 1/20th of a sec handheld as ISO 6400!)...

Anthony had a short day at school today, so while he was there, I spent half an hour at the Heian Shrine again for all the 7-, 5-, and 3-year-old kids dressed up in fancy clothes for the "7-5-3 festival", as I mentioned earlier in the week (and followed up on yesterday).

Of course, there is the occasional pretty leaf...

After school, Anthony and I visited Zak so Anthony and his son Gen could play, and Zak and I could make boring small talk about cameras for a few hours.

Zak lives on the 15th floor of a building with [...]