Kurama fire festival this evening.

We took a short train ride out to Kurama, where we saw the yearly fire festival.  Townspeople parade up and down the streets carrying huge flaming torches... a wild event.  Difficult to photograph with a phone camera...

Gion Matsuri festival after lunch

A parade showing traditional costumes of Kyoto-area people over the centuries.  Not very exciting but interesting enough.

This short message was sent from my phone.

Japanese gardens this morning...

Very nice, I would like to have something like that.

A wide variety of soybean products at this store.