Okay, so it’s a little late for a “fall leaves” post. \u00c2\u00a0But they’re still out in Japan, AND I caught some on … memory card these past two weekends. \u00c2\u00a0Thanks to some zoom and crop, you’d never know I wasn’t surrounded by a bunch of dead sticks otherwise. \u00c2\u00a0Actually, there really was plenty of scenery to drink in; it’s just hard to capture a bunch of colorful trees in a meaningful way in a photo. \u00c2\u00a0For me, at least.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
I’d have to somehow grab the crispness of the air (which adds a certain snap to the colors), the wet smell of leaves that haven’t quite started decaying yet, and a pinch of ifi’mthiscoldnowwhataboutnextmonth? fear. \u00c2\u00a0Camera wasn’t up to it. \u00c2\u00a0Photographer either.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
A bunch of these were taken in Tokyo, at the Ebisu nature preserve (who knew?) which my friend described as a big carbon dioxide sink for the freeway that surrounds half of it.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
The other bunch came from a one day trip to Kyoto (bounded by two yakou bus rides – a post of their own). \u00c2\u00a0Kyoto is really THE place to see fall foliage, but I hadn’t been able to make it down to visit my surrogate family until last weekend. \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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