There are still a few traces of fall colors around Kyoto, one of the nicest in the little common garden area of my condo building. One of its trees is just at its peak color now, turning a vivid rich red when hit by direct sunlight, or, as happens every evening, by direct incandescent floodlights.

It's nothing special 10 minutes after sunset....

... but hours later, it's positively glowing....

None of these pictures really do it justice. Just like the other foliage backlit by floodlights photos I posted earlier in the season, the intense light causes detail and color to [...]

I was at Arthur's house today helping out a bit with his remodel, and couldn't help but notice how lovely an effect the crumpled leaves made as they surrounded the stepping-stones in his garden.

The leaves came from this tree, now mostly devoid of color or leaves...

For reference, here's what they looked like 10 days ago, as they were approaching full color...

I also had some shots at full color, from a week ago, but I seemed to have deleted them by accident during a dyslexic moment when I zero-filled the wrong memory card. Doh!.

Here are some more shots from the outing up to Shogunzuka that I posted about last weekend....

Inside, a plaque describing the area...

Looking a bit toward the left...

While back at the park overlook....

But...

I've posted many times the view of Kyoto from the overlook at Shogunzuka, such as this photo from a post last year:

... or this photo from a post two weeks ago...

The location I took these shots from is officially part of the "Higashiyama Summit Park" ("Higashiyama" – Eastern Mountain – being the name of the short mountain it's at the top of), but the area is better known as "Shogunzuka", a man-made mound of some sort dating back to the 700s. It's now part of a temple's grounds, but I've always just come to the park's public overlook, [...]

Dipping into the archives, here are some photos from almost exactly two years ago, near where the city butts up against Mt. Daimonji, where developed land ends and one of the paths up to Daimonji starts.

Still in the city part, at this time of year you get some nice colors...

The distinctively-maintained shrubs in front of the house appeared on my blog once before, here, and some of the photos on this Kyoto Fall-Color Preview from last year were taken in this immediate vicinity, as were some on this different Kyoto Fall-Color Preview.

Continuing on toward the mountain, once [...]