Kenroku'en Under Snow

We post a lot of pictures of Kenroku'en around here.  One of the three most famous gardens in Japan and located all of a $3.50 thirty-minute bus ride away, and we're basically working on seeing it in all four seasons, in both daylight and lit up at night.  Last week we got a lot of snow, even by New England standards, and as the storm stretched from Wednesday through Friday night, we could go to Kenroku'en first thing Saturday morning and see it under fresh snow.  We might not get another such chance while we're here, but we made good use of this one.

Yes, we got pictures of the iconic Kenroku'en lantern, again.

We found the garden surprisingly uncrowded for such a rare opportunity, though we did figure that as most Japanese work at least Saturday morning it was not really the weekend for most people.  A large percentage of the people there were carrying cameras large enough to distinguish them as amateur or professional photographers (as opposed to the general public) even in the camera-crazy culture of Japan.  I don't think there's a heck of a lot more to say about it, except that we had a good time and took a lot of pictures, so check out the rest of them on Flikr.

I left my sunglasses at work so I was without for this trip.