The fall colors are probably already starting to appear in some parts of the Northern Hemisphere, but we won't begin to see them in Kyoto for another six weeks, so I'm dipping into the archives for a preview.

These shots are from a trip to south-western Kyoto's Yoshiminedera Temple (善峯寺) last November. As the proximity-search feature of my blog shows, I've posted plenty from this area in the past, including three posts with photos from this particular trip:

So, there's nothing new here, but I like pretty pictures, so here we go...

Well, I don't mean to make this blog all about clouds, despite my prior post showing a raincloud panorama, just like this one, but I guess that's Kyoto's weather of late. (It's also on my list to follow up on "Pregnant Cloud Over Kyoto" with a sequence of that cloud dumping its water.)

Anyway, this evening I went to the last day of the all-you-can-feast Beer/BBQ before they shut down forever, more or less repeating the performance chronicled in last week's "Diary of Gluttonous Excess: Last Night’s Visit to the Kyoto Avanshell BBQ Beer Garden".

It turns out, though, that [...]

As I posted the other day in "Pregnant Cloud Over Kyoto", we've gotten quite a bit of locally-intense afternoon thunderstorms this summer. I'm not normally here in the summer, so this has come as quite the surprise to me, a pleasing one having grown up enjoying intense thunderstorms in Ohio's hot and humid summers.

京都の夏、午後は雷雨が多いですね。好き。

I took these pictures two days before the "pregnant cloud" shot, but I was working intently on my latest Lightroom plugin so didn't have time to post them.

The cell was moving south to north, and behind it to the south it was quite clear...

Today's post is a followup to "Last Chance For the All-You-Can-Feast Beer/BBQ at the Hotel Avanshell Kyoto" from the other day. Anthony and I went again last night, and in the interest of science and to record history for posterity, I documented everything that I ate or drank with grainy iPhone snaps.

昨夜、ホテルアバンシェル京都の焼き肉食べ放題に行きました。 めっちゃ食べて、めっちゃ飲んで、めっちゃ楽しかった。すべての飲食物は撮影して(iPhoneで、御免)、この記事で見せます。80キロ192センチの私は５キロアップしました！

As I mentioned in "Going Max Cliché While Learning About Off-Camera Flash" a month and a half ago, I've been getting into pretty good shape (and even compared to that post, I am in much better shape today) and one of the methods that seems to [...]

There's one week left before the summer roof-top all-you-can-feast BBQ-and-beer garden at the Hotel Avanshell Kyoto closes forever. I've been meaning to post about it for ages, but time has conspired against me, and now it's almost over. This is the final week for this season, and since the hotel itself will close down at the end of the year, final is final. If you're in Kyoto next week, don't miss it! The last day is Sunday the 9th. I already have my reservation.

今週は最後だ！ホテル アバンシェル京都のすばらしい焼き肉食べ放題ビール飲み放題は今月９日（日）で終わり。残念ながら今年は最後で、今週は最後のチャンス。おすすめです！

For adults, ¥3,500 gets you two hours of all-you-can eat/drink gluttony, with a variety [...]