Dipping into the several metric tons of pixels that I want to post but have yet to barely even look at myself, a short trip back to late April, to a visit to the Joshoko-ji Temple (常照皇寺, more properly transliterated in English as "Joushoukou-ji") with Paul Barr and Nicolas Joannin. It was an amazing place, though the harsh sunlight of the hot spring day made for photographic challenges.

I did post just a few shots the day after the trip, in "Pretty As a Peach Blossom", and some time later some shots that happened to be from that outing to [...]

I wrote in yesterday's post about great T-Shirts for Kyoto's hot summer, but took advantage of an even better situation today when I made a visit to the Kuuya-taki Waterfall (空也滝) in western Kyoto. It was my third visit, and I've posted about it at length before, such as "Finally Reaching the Kuuya-taki Waterfall in Western Kyoto" last month.

Anthony and I went with some friends from France, Anne and Yoshi, and 10-year-old Nao. I have much I want to post, but lacking energy this evening I'll put just a few shots.

There was much less water than when I [...]

Geez, where has the time gone!? Time seems to evaporate when researching stuff, and for the last several days I've had my head buried in setting up a big data-backup system at home and in the cloud (something I'm sure I'll post about soon).

Anyway, it's been a week since I posted the Bendy-Line "What am I?" Quiz where many people answered "paper", and yes, it's paper, but there's a more expressive (dare I say "richer"?) answer....

Earlier this year I was given access to a huge pile of cash -- ¥7,000,000 (about US $91,000) -- though sadly that access [...]

The other day I posted "This Evening's Sunset in Kyoto", a photo that I really like of yet another not-too-bad Kyoto sunset, taken from the Shogunzuka overlook (将軍塚) that I often visit in hopes of a nice sunset.

As the proximity-search "nearby photos" link under that photo (and those below) shows, I post lots of shots taken from up there, most recently "A Typhoon Makes for a Good Sunset (But It’s Me That Makes It Great)" a month and a half ago, and a week before that, "Bland Sunset Over Kyoto: They Can’t All Be Amazing".

I've been up a [...]

We had a nice sunset in Kyoto this evening.

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