深大寺Jindaiji shrine

Being the start of a 3 day weekend, we were full of energy this morning.

plus it was sunny and warm! so we set off to the park near the famous 深大寺Jindaiji temple a few train stops away from our place.

Pretty maple leaves were all over... the red and orange hues were just heart warming...

besides the maple trees, some other treas were red too...

and they just warmed up the otherwise pretty cold end of autumn/start of winter season.

there were a few flower parks in this huge garden too.

the orchid

named California girl

i dont know what is the name of this. but on first look, it looked scary, on closer look, it was really beautiful.

the rose garden

with a hundred and one different hues of roses from all over the world

the pink & whites were of course my favourites, but still the red rose stands out eh?

children and old aunties & uncles enjoying the sunny saturday =)

and after that long walk, we exited the park and found ourselves in soba paradise!

soooooooo many soba restaurants and traditional snack shops near the temple outside this garde

Jun had the standard
while i had kenchin soba, hot soba filled with vegetables
it was a really old place, and the soba was really good
we found this statue outside the restaurant
and the two seemed to have something to share?
after soba, there were sooooooooooo many snacks to look at
and we just had to have one of these steamed manjuu
green herb manjuu with nice hot red bean filling.

visited the Jindaiji shrine

admired more autumn leaves outside the temple
had another snack

fried soba mochi balls with kinako (roasted soybean flour) coating

then came home with tired feet, but lighter hearts.

Dinner was

oyako don (chicken and egg)

made with last nights sukiyaki soup!

mountain yam potato salad style

broccolli stir fry with mixed mushrooms

i couldnt help it, mushrooms on sale again and the mart.

made another stock of mushroom sauce.

but this time, mushroom bonito sauce. =)

ahh............ i think still love walks in the park =)