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posted: December 31st, 2012 |
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This page includes only photos taken on December 2nd and a trip on our bicycles to Kokubunji. We visited Sourousen-en (Gardens) and Tonogayato Gardens for Autumn Color Viewing. Although it was a cloudy day, we saw some amazing colors! Click on any thumbnail to begin.
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As the header information says, on December 2nd Kazuya and I took off on our bicycles and bicycled to Kokubunji to see Sourousen-en (Gardens) and Tonogayato Gardens. We make a visit to these 2 gardens just about every December to check out the Fall Colors. This year it was cloudy, but there were some truly amazing colors. We could not imagine what kind of photos we would have ended up with if it had been sunny. In this first row are 2 photos of Maple Trees, one in Sourousen-en and one in Tonogayato. The 3rd shot is a fruit of a Gardenia plant.
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Here are 3 amazingly colored images. The 2nd one is a 2 photo panorama. Note how they put "girdles" on the pine trees. Kazuya explained that the reason for this is to attract any damaging insects which are in the tree. It is warmer under this band, so the insects go here to overwinter and then in about February the workers remove the "girdles" and burn them, thereby getting rid a lot of the insects too.
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WOW! Can you believe the colors? The 2nd image is a 3 photo panorama.
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Two more panoramas in 1st and 2nd position. The 3rd shot is not a panorama.
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As for photo #1 - well, what can be said?! It's amazing. Can you imagine what it would have looked like if we would have had a sunny day? The 2nd image is another panorama. The 3rd shot is an amazingly orange-leaved maple tree.
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A beautiful red maple, followed by a lady walking through a virtual collage of colors. Note the extreme right side of this photo because the next shot is zoomed in to that area to show you the colors there - orange, purple and yellow.
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And, here is a portrait mode shot of that orange, purple and yellow area. The 2nd shot is a nice red maple, as is the 3rd shot.
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Amazing!
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In 1st and 3rd positions is shown a Ligularia dentata (Marubadakebuki in Japanese). In center position is a rather interesting colored tree.
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Fall leaves on the goldfish pond + Kazuya and some amazing colors.
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In 1st position is a 2 shot panorama of red, orange and green plus a small pine tree with its snow protector on it. In 2nd and 3rd positions - reds, oranges, purples and in the final shot some yellow from the Ligularia dentata.
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Definitely some interesting colors in the first shot, followed by more amazing colors and then a shot showing the pond and quite an abundance of Ligularia dentana.
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