I took my camera when I walked to lunch through a small area of eastern Kyoto yesterday. These are some of the shots I took along the way.

Both lunch and the walk back will be their own posts...

Continued here...

The charity sale for the big North-East Japan Earthquake that I posted about last year will take place again this year. If you'll be in Kyoto on May 5th or 6th, perhaps stop by. Michael Lambe gives full details over on Deep Kyoto (日本語版).

Last year I donated several prints for the sale, but this year I'm thinking of something different. I recently had a large print of this Paul Barr piece framed for my office and I really like it, so I may ask Paul whether I can make another for the sale.

Proceeds benefit Kyoto-based charity International Disaster [...]

Last fall I discovered the largest hamburger I'd ever seen in real life, at the restaurant "Hagi" (萩) a couple of kilometers west of Kyoto Station. I went back today with Paul Barr (with whom I'd discovered it, as seen in this photo in front of the restaurant) and another friend to give the burger another try.

Three hamburger patties, egg, bacon, and Lord knows what else... it was big, but not nearly as big as I remembered it from before. I was a bit disappointed. Still, it towered over the plate... a plate so deep that the little minifig [...]

This evening I went to a large (for Kyoto) wine-tasting event at Kyoto Station, sponsored by Liquor Mountain (a sort of Trader Joe's of central Japan). I don't know anything about wine other than "tasty, not tasty, untried", so today was able to bolster the ranks of the first two categories.

I went with Shimada-san, Paul Barr, and another friend, Luc...

It was interesting to be able to taste (and compare/contrast) so many different products. I learned that there was no correlation between price and whether I liked it. I kept notes on a few I really liked, so I'll [...]

I've found especially this spring that I tend to use the Voigtländer 125mm more than ever, and seem to be falling into the easy-pickings trap of macro flora photography. I guess it's a phase.

This seemed particularly evident to me the other day on the outing with Paul Barr that produced "Photographer's Low-Hanging Fruit: a Pretty Flower", which this post is essentially a continuation of.

To be continued...