On autumn prt I

啊啊！幸好赶上了秋天的末班车！

不知不觉，日本已经开始准备冬天的来临。

Discovering that winter is already creeping up upon us, Xia Yi and I decide to go to HeiRinJi [平林寺] to see catch the last red leaves of autumn. [I'll die if i stay here for a year and NOT see momiji.]

After paying an entrance fee of 300 yen, the first thing you see is this:

It's already 'winter' in Japan, and the red leaves have faded, losing most of their autumn glory, but that first view of the temple grounds was still wonderful. Xia yi, with the enterance/ticket counter in the background.

Autumn still lingers on here. Red and gold as far as the eyes can see.

red and gold:

Some more red and gold

Gate to the temple.

The temple bell

This place is very popular with photographers in fall. They flock to the temple, chasing the sun for the perfect shot of the autumn leaves- momiji　「紅葉」.

Forest path into the mountain.

Another path

Shot of the canopy, from below... Like this shot :)

Took this shot just because there were 5-6 photographers with their stands parked there...

This shot was taken before the photographes flocked over -_- wad's wrong with them?

Found a good spot to take a photo of the main entrance and the temple gateway, but an old man wandered into the main lane and parked himself there. so we both were standing like that for quite a while, camera poised and waiting for each other to move out of the way. -_- obviously i gave up... my camera batt was running out.

Will update again, cos i don't have all the photos with me... [we both forgot to charge our batt, and most of the pics with are with Xia yi...] But as a parting shot, here's one with me in it, resting as usual. [and just because i want my face on my post... :D]