It's a bit late in the year, but I made a calendar for my friend Shimada-san, using some of the photos he's taken recently that I happen to have copies of. One of my posts a year ago featuring some of Shimada-san's photos is consistently one of the most popular on my blog, so I thought I'd share the images I chose for the calendar.

He had many good shots to choose from, and I tried to get a good mix, but still, there's so much left on the cutting room floor, so to speak.....

Here are the [...]

Another product of my trip to Enkouji the other day (also see this post and this).

Like most of these kinds of pictures, this one really needs to be blown up to enjoy it in its full glory, so be sure to click on the image for a larger view.

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 [...]