This post is a continuation of "Revisiting the Road to Imabari: Stops #1 and #2", which itself follows on from "On The Road to Imabari", about the first day of our short trip to Imabari (Ehime, Japan) earlier this month.

However, unlike the two earlier posts which sported all kids of pretty photos, including ten that I thought were good enough to present as desktop backgrounds, this post has pretty much nothing but photographically-atrocious images. But since my blog is a "stuff I want to share" blog, and not a photo blog, I have no qualms posting bad photos if [...]

It was a nice day, so I stepped out for a short stroll with the camera. Many cherry trees have lots of stems and few blossoms, like in the photo below, but some still have large complements of blossoms. With the photo above, I put the sun behind the blossoms and tried to expose for the blossoms, but the result wasn't particularly good, but on a whim I cranked up the exposure in Lightroom, and the result has a nice dreamy glow, as if I had applied the Funky Joy touch-up as I did here.

Part of the effect could [...]

Here are some more pictures from the first two stops during our essentially all-day drive at the start of our short but photographically-satisfying trip to Imabari City (Ehime Prefecture, Japan) at the start of the month. It was a trip which included an attraction so thrilling, the Towel Museum :-), that a single post couldn't contain its full measure of win: part 1, part 2.

Many of the photos on today's post are variations of pics seen on "On The Road to Imabari", which I had prepared in haste that first night from the hotel.

I couldn't decide which view [...]

I glanced out the window to notice some little kids playing with the fallen cherry-blossom petals, and ran to grab the camera...

Unfortunately, when I grabbed the camera, neglected to notice that I'd left it in a five-stop exposure-bracket mode, so only every fifth frame was reasonably exposed. (For non camera geeks, this is only slightly better than leaving the lens cap on, or forgetting to put in film.) At least I was able to recover something from most of them, because I shoot in raw format, not JPEG.

These trees along the river quickly started molting the day after [...]

Because I know everyone is so excited at the prospect of hearing even more about the Towel Museum, I'm following up right away to yesterday's "The Towel Museum in Imabari Japan, Part 1" with Part 2 today. Be forewarned, though, that today's post is more of a gluttony of Moominanalia mixed with unabashed "my kid is so cute!" self indulgence.

As I commented in Part I, the "Towel Museum" could well be called the "Moomin Museum" (Moomin being a Scandinavian cartoon character), and of course we caved in to Anthony's sudden and wholly expected desire for his very own pricey [...]