Out for exercise 13

 A little further on I found more evidence of the surveyors, but again no people. It looks as if they are checking the distance across the river before doing whatever construction is planned.

 The atmosphere was extremely clear. The mountains were like a painting.

 This is a little Shinto shrine if the yard of one of the house that abut the riverside path. This kind is very common and you see them all over. They are ceramic with a reddish brown glaze. The other side, the front, has a little open door and people put something inside. I will try to remember to take photographs of these when I see them, so that you can see what sort of things people put inside.

This is the riverside garden as it looks in winter. In the summer it is beautiful, with greens and many colored flowers but now all there is a shades of brown.