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posted: August 31st, 2007
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This page covers August 11th and 12th only, The Tokyo Lesbian and Gay Parade and a trip to Mt. Mitake for the Annual Rengeshouma Festival. Click on any thumbnail to begin.

Begin August 11th
  The Tokyo Lesbian and Gay Pride Parade (Tokyo Pride Parade) was held on August 11th and Kazuya and I attended and also marched in the parade. The first picture is looking forward as we lined up to start the parade - we were in Group #1. The 2nd shot is looking behind us as we lined up to start. The 3rd shot is the end of the parade as Group #2 (Brass Band Mix) returns to the staging area.
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  Seeing as we were in the 1st group, we took pictures as the other groups returned to the staging area. The first 2 shots are cute guys and the 3rd shot shows 2 girls (maybe) wearing ONE dress!!!
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  The 1st shot here is people in jin bae. The 2nd shot is - well, I don't actually know - something weird. The 3rd shot shows an OLD grandmother carrying her colors.
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End August 11th, Begin August 12th
  On August 12th we went out to Mt. Mitake for the annual Rengeshouma (Anemopsis heterophylla = Anemopsis macrophylla) blooming season. These flowers are, as you may remember from past years, quite rare, and this is one of the biggest known concentrations of this flower.
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  The first photo shows an entire Rengeshouma plant and then 2 more Rengeshouma (False Anemone) flowers.
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  The first shot shows a bunch of people going crazy taking photos. The 2nd and 3rd shots are 2 more individual flowers.
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  The first 2 shots exhibit 2 more close-ups of the False Anemone flowers face and the 3rd shot shows the back of the flower.
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  Here are 3 more shots of the flower face.
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  The first shot in this row is is a Jack-in-the-Pulpit (Arisaema  sp.) seed head. The 2nd shot is the final shot of the Rengeshouma and the 3rd shot is a Toad Lily flower (Tricyrtis  sp.).
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  The first 2 shots here are Ainsliaea acerifolia var. subapoda and the 3rd shot is an ecosystem inside of an old small milk bottle - AMAZING. I just saw this greenery through a thin layer of dirt and when I looked closer I realized what I was looking at. We brushed the film of dirt off the bottle and found this. Sorry, we don't know what kind of plant it is.
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  The first shot here is a Mountain Hydrangea (Yama Ajisai). The 2nd shot is an Adenophora remotiflora and the 3rd shot is the passing point of the Cable Car as we went down the mountain to soak our feet in the cool refreshing Tama River while drinking a beer.
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  Here is a very interesting shot of a stand of bamboo - nice lighting. The final 2 shots are Conandron ramondioides.  The Japanese name is Iwa Tabako. There is no English common name.
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End August 12th, End Page 1
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