Every day on Ryuso beautiful. Every day the beauty’s different.

Above, tea fields along the road up to the trailhead.

Yamabuki, near the trailhead.

The accent on the mountain this mid-April day  was the lavender azaleas. It’s a beauty that a camera has difficulty capturing.

Most of the time, you gaze upon the blossoms through the leaves of other trees, which is stunningly beautiful to the human eye—but gives an ordinary camera fits. It never knows what to focus on.

Some may prefer the azaleas on a blue-sky day, but I think they look rather elegant in the grey.

And the grey.

The grey, misty woods are a perfect place for solitude. Ask a Hearty Hiker. . . . If you can catch up with her!

Cherry blossoms and grey skies block our usual view of Mt. Fuji.

A few days earlier. In my neighborhood. Negibozu (“Buzz-cut onion heads”), with Ryuso in the background.