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posted: October 31st, 2012
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This page begins with October 12th. Kazuya had to work and I went out to Mt. Takao and climbed it for the 83rd time. That's not really very impressive as it's only 599 m (= 1,965 ft), but it's good for conditioning. I found the first fall colors. The following day, October 13th, Kazuya and I went to Jindai Botanical Garden near our house and took several photos. This page ends with the 13th.
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Begin October 12th
  As it says above, on October 12th Kazuya had to work, but I went out to Mt. Takao and climbed it for the 83rd time. I found the first of the fall colors. These 3 photos are all of the same tree, merely zoomed to different branches on that tree.
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  On Saturday, October 13th, Kazuya and I went to Jindai Botanical Garden on our bicycles and ate soba for lunch at one of the restaurants near the rear gate of the Botanical Garden and then we entered the garden with our year passes. To our surprise considering how late it is in the season, we found several of the saprophytic Cymbidium nipponicum aka C. macrorhizon. These 3 shots came out very fine.
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  There was so much Polygonum filiforme in one small area that I was able to get some quite fine shots of it. This is a real rarity - to be able to get decent shots of this species.
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  It, totally by coincidence, was the start of yet another Rose Festival at Jindai Botanical Garden, so there were quite a few people present and we, of course, had to take pictures of the incredible roses!
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  The first shot in this row was taken looking directly down the center of the Rose Garden Pond looking towards the Greenhouse. The 2nd shot is a 3 shot panorama taken from the pavilion, looking towards the greenhouse. The 3rd shot shows lots of red!
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  All 3 shots in this row show an abundance of red, and the 3rd shot was taken to only show red and to turn everything else to a shade of gray.
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  The 3 shots in this row are quite incredible.
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  3 more shots - and in the 2nd shot you can see that Kazuya caught me and in the 3rd shot I caught Kazuya.
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  In first position is the final shot taken in the Rose Garden. The 2nd shot - a beautiful Bird of Paradise Flower (Strelitzia reginae) was taken in the greenhouse. The 3rd shot, also in the greenhouse, is a Jatropha integerrima. It is in the family Euphorbiaceae and is a native of Cuba and Hispaniola.
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  Here is another shot of the Jatropha integerrima in first position and then a shot of some mature fruits of the Cocoa Tree (Theobroma cacao). The 3rd shot shows the newly developing flower buds on a branch of the same tree.
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  There was an orchid exhibition in the greenhouse on this date too! We took quite a few photos of the various orchids, but the one shown here ended up being the best. After that we walked over to "The Big Lawn" and took some photos of the Pampas Grass (Cortaderia selloana). The 2 shots in this row were both taken from the same spot, the 2nd shot was merely zoomed in.
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  For the first and 2nd photos in this row I was still standing in the same spot as I was when I took the previous 2 photos, it is merely zoomed in a bit more. The 3rd shot was taken from a different place, with a different camera (by Kazuya).
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  Here is an extreme zoom of a seed head, but not from the same place as those other photos. I walked closer to get this one. It seems that there is something nearly obscene about this photo, but I don't know why!? The center photo was taken while looking back through the grass at the sun and the final shot is again looking on with the sun illuminating the seed heads nicely.
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