Here are some more shots from the outing up to Shogunzuka that I posted about last weekend....

Inside, a plaque describing the area...

Looking a bit toward the left...

While back at the park overlook....

But...

Continuing with more from my Visit to Kibune two weeks ago with Thomas Hertel, after we had dango at the restaurant with the old wooden gear, we were walking along the road and were beckoned by the tranquil sight of a tranquil site...

The photo above almost makes it look like some kind of miniature site, but the gate at left is plenty tall enough to walk under, and the bridge itself is about ten feet long.

Thomas posed for a picture, strictly as a size comparison...

If Thomas were to turn to the camera's left, he'd be looking up [...]

A few more shots from yesterday evening's visit to the Eikando Temple's lightup event....

In the shot above, you can see a lady in a kimono slightly left of center, holding up her cell phone to photograph the red leaves. She's the one in this shot from yesterday. I tried to include her in my pictures while she was taking pictures, because generally speaking, I like the kimono. I realize now, though, that you can't really see the kimono in the closer shots (some taken at 1/20th of a sec handheld as ISO 6400!)...

Anthony had a short day at school today, so while he was there, I spent half an hour at the Heian Shrine again for all the 7-, 5-, and 3-year-old kids dressed up in fancy clothes for the "7-5-3 festival", as I mentioned earlier in the week (and followed up on yesterday).

Of course, there is the occasional pretty leaf...

After school, Anthony and I visited Zak so Anthony and his son Gen could play, and Zak and I could make boring small talk about cameras for a few hours.

Zak lives on the 15th floor of a building with [...]

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. [...]