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posted: August 31st, 2008 |
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This page begins with August 4th and takes you through August 9th - a trip to Mt. Mitake for the annual Rengeshouma flower photos, followed by a trip to Yamagata Prefecture and Kazuya's hometown and ending with a climb of Mt. Chokai. Click on any thumbnail to begin.
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| Begin August 4th |
On August 4th Kazuya and I went out to Mitake and to the summit of Mt. Mitake for our annual Rengeshouma (Anemonopsis macrophylla) adventure. The Rengeshouma always blooms in August so we went to find it. There were some flowers, but it was still a week or more from peak blooming period. A nice thing was that it was a weekday (Monday) so we didn't have to wait in line to photograph the best flowers. The first photo is a huge Mountain Lily. The 2nd shot is a Rengeshouma flower and the 3rd shot is some kind of beautiful red berries.
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Here are 2 more shots of Rengeshouma (Anemonopsis macrophylla) and a shot of a Toad Lily (Tricyrtis sp.).
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The first shot here is one of those huge Mountain Lilies with me for scale. Then, there are 2 more Rengeshouma photos.
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Here are 3 more Rengeshouma photos (Anemonopsis macrophylla). We seem to have gotten some better shots this year then ever before.
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And here are 3 more REALLY NICE Rengeshouma photos (Anemonopsis macrophylla).
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And here you can see 2 final shots of Rengeshouma (Anemonopsis macrophylla) and a shot of the very green ground. Oh, by the way, note that there is a larger size JPG available for the 2nd photo. Please take a look at the larger image of this photo HERE (492 KB)
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 Aug04_ MtMitake_ Rengeshouma66RC |
 Aug04_MtMitake_ Rengeshouma69_BESTRC or HERE for 982 KB PDF file |
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| End August 4th, Begin August 8th & August 9th |
On August 7th Kazuya and I went to his hometown - Funagata, in Yamagata Prefecture, for cooling off and relaxation. His parents have a large garden, but they had never eaten Squash Blossoms before, so I told them how delicious squash blossoms are and Kazuya's mother made Tempura with Squash Blossoms - WOW! What a treat! The 2nd shot shows some Water Lily flowers at a Shrine quite near Kazuya's house. The 3rd shot in this row shows the scenery from the Shrine.
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Here is one more shot from near the Shrine - a beautiful, if deadly, Amanita sp. mushroom. On August 8th we took a train to Sakata (on the west coast in Yamagata Prefecture) in preparation for climbing Mt. Chokai the next day. This windmill scene was taken from the train window at one of the station stops. The 3rd shot here is on August 9th and shows Kazuya as we started our climb of Mt. Chokai (2,236 meters = 7,336 feet). We also climbed this mountain back in August, 2005, but it started raining before we were halfway to the summit and continued until after we were off the mountain. (You can look at the photos from August, 2005 to see what we saw that time.)
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As we hiked we saw lots of incredible things - the trail was virtually flowers from bottom to top, plus the scenery! Here are 3 flowers.
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And here are 3 more flowers. This species of thistle (Cirsium chokaiense) shown in the 3rd shot is found only on Mt. Chokai!
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Here is another shot of Kazuya with a beautiful green background. The 2nd shot is looking west and you can see the Sea of Japan out there beyond the windmills. The 3rd shot is an alpine lake which we passed after about 2 hours from the start of our climb.
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These 3 shots all show the summit of Mt. Chokai from near the alpine lake. The difference is the zoom factor used for the photos.
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| End Page 1, but August 9th continues on Page 2 |
| And, that shows you what we saw from August 4th through August 9th. Thanks so much for taking the time to look. Please continue on to Page 2 for the continuation of photos taken on August 9th. |
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