Anthony and I went out today to try the remote control car he got from Grandma and Grandpa for his birthday last week, our schedule or the weather conspiring to prevent us until today.

We headed to the rear of the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (in the same area as the "Hanami and Lunch" picture on this post) and gave it a try. I happened to have my point-n-shoot with me, so snapped a couple of pictures...

I'd not charged the battery in the week after opening it, so about the time he was getting used it, silly me, [...]

In my previous post on our trip to Miyajima near Hiroshima, Japan, I showed the main gate of the Itsukushima Shrine (厳島神社、宮島) at low tide. This time I have a few pictures of the shrine itself at low tide.

The shrine is mostly over piers above water (high tide) or mud (low tide), and I should start of by noting that it's much more picturesque when over water (as in the shot at the start of my first post from the trip). To me, today's pictures are more "interesting" than "pretty," and are probably neither to anyone else, but it's [...]

From the "Words Really Can't Do It Justice" department, rummaging around in my image library I found these shots that I took with my cellphone last year, on Route 1 in Yamashina (Kyoto, Japan).

As I earlier posted from our trip to Miyajima an island near Hiroshima, Japan, one of the main photographic attractions is the large main gate of the Itsukushima Shrine (厳島神社、宮島). It's off the coast in the intertidal zone, so when the tide is in, it's in the water and really pretty. There's a nice daytime shot of it at high tide at the end of this post, and on another post, some night shots.

Perhaps it's just the geek in me, but I think there's a certain interest to it even at low tide. I like to see how things [...]

More pictures from Anthony's birthday the other day.

We had a couple of those pull-the-string-and-streamers-pop-out party favors....

Yet just 0.69 seconds later....

A present from Grandma and Grandpa had him looking for assistance...

Inside was an "age 8+" radio-controlled car that I'm sure we'll see more of in a later post, and a book that got an immediate and thorough inspection...

Fumie's mom made a wonderful spread for dinner. Anthony and Fumie's brother are playing with Anthony's new train in the background of the next shot....

The foreground bowl is rice topped with egg (the yellow stuff), cucumber, ikura salmon [...]