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posted: June 30th, 2010 |
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This page begins with June 13th - the final day of this adventure - and takes you through the end of the month. Click on any thumbnail to begin.
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Now it's June 13th and it's 4:13 AM. Kazuya got up early to see the sun come up, but I was lazy and stayed in the tent a while longer. It was a little foggy and the colors were interesting. The 3rd shot was taken at 6:27 AM and we have now eaten our breakfast (which we brought with us), packed our stuff and we are hiking again. We will return back to our starting point via a different trail for the most part.
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Here are 2 additional shots of Viola kamtschadalorum - look at all of the veins. The 3rd shot is Skunk Cabbage (Lysichiton camtschatcense) with a nice reflection of the sun off the water.
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Here is that river which has Sanjou Waterfall. It is the Tadami River. This spot is well above the waterfall - probably 3 or 4 kilometers. The 2nd shot is Veratrum stamineum. The 3rd shot is scenery and Mt. Shibutsu.
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Here is something we were not expecting - a hybrid of a relatively common violet. This is a Viola verecunda f. violacens in the first position. In 2nd position is another shot of Viola kamtschadalorum with a Dew Drop hanging from it! Amazing! The 3rd shot is another example of Gentiana thunbergii var. minor.
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Here is a scenic shot, followed by 2 shots of the pink version of Gentiana thunbergii var. minor. The 2nd shot shows only the pink flower. The 3rd shot shows the pink flower along with a bluish colored one so that you can easily see the difference
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Here are 2 final shots of Viola kamtschadalorum - again, look at all of the veins. The 3rd shot is a variety of Cottongrass - an Eriophorum vaginatum - with a nice sun reflection off the water.
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Here are 3 scenic shots. The 2nd shot shows Kazuya and the boardwalk. The 3rd shot is 3 photos taken at different exposures and then fused together into one image.
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Here is a nice shot of Mt. Shibutsu and its reflection in a pond. The 2nd shot is a scenic shot of a small birch tree all alone in this part of the marsh and Mt. Hiuchigatake in the background. The 3rd shot shows the lonely birch tree zoomed in.
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Here are 2 additional shots of Cottongrass (Eriophorum vaginatum) followed by another shot of Mt. Shibutsu and its reflection in a pond.
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We saw several of these salamanders (Cynops pyrrhogaster) - they had a red stripe on the side, which does not show in any of the photos which we have. The 2nd shot is a Paris verticillata. I have shown you photos of Paris tetraphylla in the past - this was a new species of Paris for us. The 3rd shot is another Glaucidium palmatum - the one which we could not stop to take photos of yesterday! There are a lot fewer people on the trail today - Thank Heavens!
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Here is a final shot of Glaucidium palmatum in first position. The 2nd shot is a final shot of Viola brevistipulata and the 3rd shot brings us back "Full Circle" - to our starting point. The time is now 10:55 AM. We have time to relax, eat lunch and so on as our bus does not leave until around 2:30 PM. WOW! What an adventure!
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| End June 13th, End Page 4, End June 2010's Photos |
I realize that this page only takes you through the 13th of the month and that there were still 2 more weekends in June. To tell the truth,
the Mt. Akadake climb kicked my butt and I was not yet recovered when we went to Oze National Park, so that put me in even worse health than I had been.
I am writing this on June 27th and I am still not 100% recovered. We climbed Mt. Takao on Friday, June 25th, for our annual search for
Dendrobium moniliforme orchids, but unfortunately they were finished by then and there are no photos from that day which can compete with what
is already here for June. Kazuya made a trip out to Mt. Takao on June 2nd when he had a day off and I had to work - you can find a few photos of
Dendrobium moniliforme on his blog from that date if you care to look. Oh well, there are 171 photos shown on these 4 pages,
selected from the 2,275 photos which we KEPT this month - that should be more than enough to show you the month of June.
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Here are links to separate web pages. The first link 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 link 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. The 3rd link takes you to a set of pages which show you the FRONT coverart of all of our DVDs.
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| February 22, 2009 DVD Collection, Movie of Home Theater System & TV Pictures (new window) |
Link to DVD collection in DVD Profiler Click Here. (new window) |
Our DVD Collection Front Coverart Pages Click Here. (new window) |
 Please check it out by clicking on the above button. (Click on the "Studies of Plants and Wildlife" link in the new window.) |
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