This is Page 2 of 2 - the best of July 2012! posted: July 31st, 2012

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This page begins and ends with July 29th and a trip to and climb of Mt. Mitake. Click on any thumbnail to begin.

Begin July 29th

So, on July 29th we went out to Mitake on an early morning train, took the bus to the Mt. Mitake Cable Car Station and took the Cable Car to the top of the mountain. We were hoping to find Mountain Lilies (Lilium auratum) and False Anemone (Rengeshouma in Japanese) (Anemonopsis macrophylla). We found both! The Mountain Lily was just about at its peak, but the False Anemone had barely started blooming yet. We thought we would be a bit early for the False Anemone, but we expected to find more in bloom than we found. In this row is some kind of Compositae with a butterfly on it, an amazing group of Mountain Lily buds and a nice shot of "Tiger's Tail" (Lysimachia clethroides).

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Here are 3 amazing shots of the Mountain Lily (Lilium auratum). The fragrance of this flower is so wonderful and so strong, that quite often you smell the flowers before you see them.

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Here is another Mountain Lily shot. The 2nd shot shows all of the flower buds of the False Anemone (Anemonopsis macrophylla) (Rengeshouma in Japanese) and, in third position, a shot of a single False Anemone Flower. We only found one flower at this location!

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Here are 3 shots of False Anemone (Anemonopsis macrophylla) (Rengeshouma in Japanese). The 2nd and 3rd shots show how abundant this flower will be in a week or two.

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Here are 3 more shots of the Mountain Lily (Lilium auratum)

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And, 3 more shots of the Mountain Lily. The first shot gives you an idea of how big these flowers are.

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Here is an amazing grouping of Mountain Lily flowers in first position. In 2nd position is a shot of a Hydrangea flower and in 3rd position is a shot showing Mountain Climbing Clothing Styles. The man's face has been purposefully blurred.

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In 1st and 3rd position are shots of the False Anemone flowers. The first shot also features a Mountain Lily behind it. The 2nd shot shows what I consider to be a daring mountain clothing style!

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Here is another shot of False Anemone. In 2nd and 3rd position are shots of Mountain Lily. Note the huge butterfly in the center shot.

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Here are 3 shots of False Anemone (Anemonopsis macrophylla) (Rengeshouma in Japanese). Note the Mountain Lily in the 2nd shot.

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Here are 3 more shots of False Anemone (Anemonopsis macrophylla) (Rengeshouma in Japanese). Note the Mountain Lily in the 1st and 3rd shots.

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Here is something which we did not expect to see here - an amazing patch of Hydrangea on a small side trail. We noticed this from the main trail and hiked down to get closer to it.

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In first position is another Hydrangea - a rare Red Flowered one. The 2nd and 3rd shots show better photos than on page 1 of the Iwa Tabako (Conandron ramondioides) Flower. We found these along a rock wall which has a cyclone fence laid across if to protect from falling rock and that is why you see cyclone fence in both shots, sorry, but no way around it.

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End July 29th, End Page 2, End July 2012's Photos

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