A few more pictures of kids in kimono, a followup from Kids in Kimono: Cute Enough to Eat earlier in the week. The current forecast is for rain on Sunday (when the kimono-clad-kids should be out again), so perhaps these shots are it for this year...

As I wrote the other day, we're still waiting for the fall colors to really arrive, but some trees have certainly given us a nice preview. Here's Nijo street, which runs in front of the shrine...

The shrine is just to the left of the traffic light, which is where Jingumichi ("Shrine St.") dead-ends. [...]

My post earlier this week about our weekend trip to Kibune with Thomas ended with us eating dango at one of the many roadside restaurants. In the background of the final photo on that post, you can see a big gear, perhaps four feet across. It's a big, clearly very old wooden gear.

Even the pegs used to hold the pieces together, and the tapered pins used to hold the pegs in tightly are wood. It's amazing.

It was a dark, overcast day of intermittent rain, and an hour before sunset deep in the narrow valley that is Kibune, so [...]

Next Saturday is shichi go san – "7 5 3" – a traditional festival celebrating kids aged 7, 5, and 3 years old. (It's taking a will of steel to refrain from the pun of calling this festival "odd".) Wikipedia has a short little writeup describing it, how often it's the first time for kids to dress up in fancy kimono (girls) or hakama (boys), and such.

Although it's not until next week, this past weekend found the Heian Shrine filled with kids all dressed up and cute as a button. My friend Thomas, in town just for the weekend, [...]

Well, today's weather was quite different from yesterday's, so I shouldn't be surprised that today's sunset was nothing compared to yesterday's once-in-a-lifetime sunset. Still, one can hope, so today I made the five-minute drive up to the Shogunzuka overlook and hoped for the best.

I've posted dusk shots from here before, and night shots as well. (See the "nearby photos" link under any picture for other posts with photos taken from here.)

I had a short chat with this couple visiting from Nagoya (about a two-and-a-half hour drive away)...

He was shooting, I think, a Nikon D2x (a pro-level [...]

Wow, my third post of the day. I didn't intend to take any pictures today, but with Anthony's style choices in the morning, and the stunningly orange sunset in the evening, I've had no choice.

On top of that, I went a bit early to pick up Anthony from school, and stopped in to the grounds of the old imperial palace (Kyoto Gosho) to check on the fall foliage there. I think it's safe to say that the opening act is on stage, but the headliners are still in the dressing room.

The "opening act" are some of the trees [...]