Nothing quite says Kyoto better than the city’s famed Japanese rock gardens. Often referred to as Zen gardens, the rock gardens offer a scaled down version of a landscape, through carefully composed arrangements of rocks, water features, moss, pruned trees…
Nara, Japan ~ of Sacred Deer and Kaiseki.
A sacred deer’s tongue is suprisingly soft. Softer than that of a cow and definitely than that of a cat. A deer slowly and gently licks my hand on our first day in Nara. We are off to a good…