There's got to be a name for the little roof that sits on top of a wall, but I don't know what it is. The wall here is next to the entrance to the Konpukuji Temple (金福寺). It's the first place that Nils and I went on our little trip the other day, and even the little garden just outside the enterance was really beautiful.

Here's a partial view of the garden, looking toward the enterance (with the subject of the first photo being just to the upper right of the enterance, obscured by some green leaves):

When at the [...]

More pictures from my outing yesterday to Konpukuji Temple and Enkouji Temple, for their fall foliage.

This time I present a few desktop backgrounds, and as I did with the Cherry-Blossom Desktops, I'm providing both standard and widescreen versions. The two "standard" sizes are appropriate for common 4 × 3 displays, while the "widescreen" versions are appropriate for Apple MacBooks and Cinema Displays, up to an expansive 2,560 × 1,660.

Those first two pictures are of the same garden, so they show how dynamic the view was: sometimes a lot of red & orange, and sometimes a lot of [...]

Nils and I went looking for fall foliage today, and at his suggestion we visited some temples toward the north-east of Kyoto. This picture looks down on the Enkouji Temple (圓光寺), which dates to 1667. The fall colors are only just starting, but it's a good start. It was a most excellent day, but I'm exhausted now.

I was planning on posting just two or three pictures, but after my first pass through them, I came up with five that I just had to show. But after preparing the first one, I was so tired that I had [...]

I've been asked for the last month when I'm going to post fall-foliage pictures of Kyoto. Well, for the last month, I've been wondering when the fall foliage season will start!

Some of the leaves are finally starting to turn. I took a short stroll today and snapped a few pictures. (They are all geoencoded, so you can use something like my image-data viewer to see a map of where they were taken.)

The picture above was taken from the middle of Nijo Street, facing east. Some of the trees have started to turn, but none are really brilliant, and [...]

They say that the quality of the photographer is much more important than the quality of the camera, and while I'm sure that's true, I felt very limited by the quality of the camera I had with me at Fumie's friend's wedding on Saturday. (Fumie's friend, Machiko or Ma-chan for short, is featured in my previous post.)

Because the wedding was for Fumie's friend, and she'd have various tasks throughout the day, I was on Anthony duty, so I left my semi-pro SLR at home. Still, I couldn't resist bringing something, so I pocketed a small Canon point-n-shoot. [...]