Best Photos of 2018

Here’s my favorite pictures of 2018. Japan was the big thing we did this year, but also got some decent pics in Vegas, San Francisco, and right down the street from my house. Enjoy!

This was taken one morning on my way to the grocery store; it’s just right across the street from Safeway in San Jose

Got this in a large kaleidoscope in the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not museum near Pier 39 in San Francisco

The purple flowers of the Western Redbud contrast really well with the oranges and tans of Red Rock Canyon Park outside Las Vegas

Loved the tan and blue contrast in Red Rock Canyon Park outside Las Vegas

We went up the Tokyo Sky Tree at just the right time to take in the massive city around us

Himeji Castle really is gorgeous, isn’t it?

Koko-en Garden of Himeji Castle is a stellar example of the lovely, peaceful gardens we visited across Tokyo, Himeji, Nara, and Kyoto

This representation of Ungyo, one of the Benevolent Kings, was found in Todai-ji Temple in Nara, Japan

One of the hallways in the shopping center under Tokyo Station starts to demonstrate the scale of this underground world

Seeing the zen installations in various gardens was intriguing; I could see how people can sit and stare at things like this for hours, looking for new details

Found this in one of the gardens we visited in Kyoto. It strikes me as something out of a fairy tale!

While we couldn’t go inside, we enjoyed touring the outside of the Imperial Palace

San Francisco is always picturesque; this view towards downtown helps demonstrate that

I looked out the window at work and had to get a picture of this amazing sunset.