WE SHOPPED!

At Toji Temple... the many booths , happy to be resting in the midst of it all , and then with a room full of kmono back at the hotel...

WE ATE & DRANK!

bythe riverside, a beautiful salad, green tea to drink, green tea ice cream treats, breakfast at the ryokan, aburi mochi, a typical bento lunch, and we sent to a kushhachi restaurant, where the staff was fun to watch, and we drank a lot of tea...

WE TOOK PHOTOS

Fan in Stone, gardens, pond, wrapped tree, out the window, Year of the Rat, tight spaces, parking, temple roof, incense, street scene, a wedding, with the happy couple, and a homeless dwelling under a bridge

WE LEARNED ABOUT TEXTILES

Roketsu Dying: the studio, wax on, suiting up, the results, our teachers
Vegetable Dyes:indigo vats, the results, our sensei, the farm, the Oharakobo sensei explains
Weaving Workshop: weaving studio, learning warp and weft, prayed at the weaver's shrine,

WHEN IN ROME...

Dressing up, in make up and in twelve layersl by two dressers, like Murasaki... at an Ozashki (Geisha party), where they danced, served us, smiled, purifying the hands, temple offerings, hung out with some locals - Junko (our guide) and saw various, other Kyotoites,

WE GOT AROUND!

by bus, to the cemetery, made friends, at the Imperial Palace Park, in Uji, at the ryokan lobby, in the rice fields, by the Kamo River, Pure Water Temple, loved the silliness, Japlish signs, including toilet how-to and weird dog photos, to my favorite temple in Ohara, strolling around, saw but didn't stay at a love hotel,