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posted: November 30th, 2009
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The photos on this page were all taken on November 29th - a trip to Jindai Botanical Garden. Lots of amazing fall colors. Click on any thumbnail to begin.

Begin November 29th
  On Sunday, November 30th, Kazuya and I went to Jindai Botanical Garden and Jindaiji Shrine to check out the fall colors. As you will see on this page - they were pretty much at their peak. The first shot in this row was taken just outside the front gate of the Botanical Garden at 9:25 AM. The 2 trees are a Red Maple (red) and a Ginkgo (yellow). The 2nd shot was taken at the Maple Tree section of the Botanical Garden. It was 9:58 AM. The 3rd shot was taken at 10:01 AM.
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  As you might guess, these three photos were all taken in the Maple Tree Section of the Botanical Garden. They were taken between 10:01 and 10:11 AM. Aren't they beautiful?
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  These 2 shots were taken at 10:14 AM - the first one has the yellow foreground leaves and branch in focus and the 2nd one has the red background leaves and tree in focus.
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  These three were taken between 10:18 and 10:28 AM. The sun was about at the maximum brightness that it was going to achieve for this day.
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  This Maple photo was taken at 10:32 and then we decided to walk around more of the Botanical Garden and see what else we could find. As we went past the pond we saw a bunch of photographers with their tripods and huge cameras and we found what they were photographing - this Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis). Considering the equipment we have, compared to those people, these couple of shots came out quite nice. These shots were taken at 11:19 and 11:24 AM respectively.
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  Then we walked out the rear entrance and down to the Temple Area. We had never realized it before, but there are some nice maple trees in the Temple Grounds too. These 2 shots were taken at 12:23 and 12:25 PM respectively.
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  These 2 shots were also taken in the Temple Grounds - at 12:28 and 12:33 PM respectively. We had already eaten lunch of nice soba (buckwheat) noodles at a soba restaurant. Check out Kazuya's blog for a nice photo of our lunch.
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  Then we went back into the Botanical Garden and although it had clouded up we changed the setting on our cameras to "Cloudy" and returned to the Maple Tree area and took some additional photos. These 3 were taken between 1:02 and 1:04 PM.
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  These 3 were taken between 1:05 and 1:06 PM.
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  And these were taken between 1:10 and 1:14 PM. The 2nd shot is, of course, me.
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  Here is a shot of Kazuya at 1:15 PM and another fall color shot, taken at 1:22 PM.
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  And, we come to the final 2 shots of Fall Color in the Maple Tree Section of Jindai Botanical Garden. These 2 were taken at 1:22 and 1:25 PM respectively. Although the photos don't show it, it was quite cloudy by this time so we headed for home on our bicycles. Just before we got home it started spitting rain!
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End November 29th, End Page 4, End November 2009's Photos

  Here are links to separate web pages. The first shows some photos of our DVD Collection, an AVI Movie of our Home Theater System and 9 photos of our Sharp Aquos TV. The 2nd shows our entire DVD collection in DVD Profiler (if you're asking yourself what might be good to rent for the weekend). The DVD's will be sorted by date purchased. You can click on the "Title" Column to sort that way if you desire.
February 22, 2009 DVD Collection,
Movie of Home Theater System
& TV Pictures
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Link to DVD collection in DVD Profiler
Click Here.
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Kazuya has updated - his blog and it has some truly exquisite photos of our climbs! Please check it out HERE. (Click on the "Studies of Plants and Wildlife" link in the new window.)

2010 USA (173 KB) and Japanese (183 KB) Refrigerator Door Size Calendar PDF's

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