Flowers and church.
Photographs
Wednesday, November 16, 2016 →
Looking skywards. Sitting under the shelter of trees.
Supermoon in pixels.
After yesterday’s US election, I offer this part of the Prayer of St Francis overlaid on an image of the Zen garden at Tenryu-ji Temple, the head temple of the Tenryu branch of Rinzai Zen Buddhism.
Moon rise this evening.
Temple cat. Spot the cat at Seiganji Temple, Kyoto.
Seiganji is the head temple of the Jodo Seizan-Fukakusa school of Buddhism. It was founded, in a different location, in 667. It’s current location is at the intersection of two busy shopping streets and is a haven of peace amongst the busyness.
Fence Post.
Chinese Graveyard.
Above Turtle Bay near Ho’okipa with Melissa.
Rainbow & storm clouds.
Cows at dusk with Melissa.
Side street in Paia.
Small bamboo garden outside a building in Kyoto.
Working out of Honolulu Coffee (now no more, 8/26/2019) in Paia yesterday morning. Wanting a cappuccino? This is their order - good.
This morning’s view.
View looking back from the ocean.
My recent visit to Japan has rekindled my interest in origami. My first few shapes that I have folded have been a table, a Lilly (proud of that one!), a water bomb(!) a crane, a windmill/four pointed star, an unwell looking frog, and a hat. Great fun! More to come hopefully.
Looking up into the branches of a Rainbow Shower tree.
Artist by the Takase River or canal, Kyoto. The flat bottomed boat is a replica of the type of boat that use to bring goods up & down this canal.
In Koutou-In Temple, Daitoku-ji, Kyoto. Another temple in the Rinzai Zen Temple complex.
Can anyone help with a translation?
A strange looking spider spotted on the ceiling at Maui Memorial Hospital A&E. 😉
A homecoming welcome.
Display on the outside wall of an Aesop Skin Care store in Nakagyo Ward, Kyoto.
Entrance to Yasaka-jinja Shinto Shrine, by night, on the edge of the Gion district, Kyoto.
Zuihō-tei garden at Zuiho-in temple, Daitoku-ji.
I stumbled across this cool little coffee shop while wandering the back streets of northern Kyoto on my way to the subway station from Daitoku-ji. Thank you for a welcome cup of coffee, and a bag of the house blend for back home.
The Isshidan garden at Ryogen-in Temple within the vast Daitoku-ji complex in northern Kyoto. Daitoku-ji is one of fourteen autonomous branches of the Rinzai school of Japanese Zen. … This garden was given its name after the Temple' founder, Tokei, was given the name “Ryozen-isshi-no-ken” by his teacher.
Beautiful metal work at and by @kaikadocafe
Right to left - from Indigo plant -> to dried leaves -> to powder ready to create the liquid dye
Flower and fruit arrangement on natural indigo cloth in the indigo dying room of kasuri
