Santa brought Anthony a new truck, and even after he'd played with it for several hours, I was awe struck by the concentration he showed, paying rapt attention to every detail.

Unlike most of the 15,000 photos I have of him (would you like to see them all? 🙂, these actually reflect the real Anthony that we see every day in person.

I'm totally enthralled with this whole series of a dozen or so shots, which I took at the kitchen table while he played.

(Daddy side comment: I remember [...]

I don't think anyone would call it the "blizzard of '05" but the other day Kyoto certainly did get more snow than normal. It tended to come in heavily, and then be bright and crisp, and repeat. Here are two shots I happened to take an hour and a half apart, of the main gate of the Heian Shrine, as seen from my veranda:

Spring and Fall are Kyoto's glorious seasons, and although this season's foilage is said to be weak, it seems that I'm getting loads of great pictures every time I go out (and am going out a lot, since it's so nice and there are so many wonderful places close by).

I'd posted many nice photos when I wrote about our summer trip to Ryouanji. Ryouanji (龍安寺 -- the Ryouan Temple) is a small temple tucked in near the mountains in the north-west part of Kyoto, near its more famous tourist-spot brother, Kinkakuji (金閣寺 -- the Golden Pavilion).

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