Nature, Flora and Fauna After 2 years Kyoto, Gioji & Sagano
This is Gioji Temple is famous for being the setting of the "Let's go to Kyoto" Japan Rail tourism campaign in the fall of 1994 and th...
Nature, Flora and Fauna
Nature, Flora and Fauna 
Nature, Flora and Fauna Mitake valley autumn walk -2
This is a continuation of the Mitake Valley walk.Near Sawai Station on the JR Ome Line, cross the Kaede bridge over the Tama River and...
Nature, Flora and Fauna Mitake valley autumn walk -1
Hearing a rumor that the autumn foliage in Okutama was at its best, I wandered over there one weekend in mid-November. The destination...
Nature, Flora and Fauna Mimosa pudica
In Japan, mimosa refers to Acacia dealbata and other plants in the family Fabaceae, but this is actually a misnomer that has been wron...
Nature, Flora and Fauna Red spider lily again
Just a little out of season due to the order of publication, but here is the second installment this year of my "red spider lily walk....
Nature, Flora and Fauna Red spider lily in the rain
Even though I had gone to the trouble of location scouting in advance, this season's "red spider lily walk" started at Tama Central Pa...