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Went to iaido lesson today, the first time in two months or so. Everything was even more clumsy than previously, but I remembered almost everything (excluding inyoshintai, the fifth kata, which I remembered only partially).

On a way back I noticed that there was a lot of frost around, and the frosty tree leaves on the ground looked so nice that I just swapped ぼっけん for a カメラ at home and headed to Ainola park. Shot almost a roll of frosty leaves.

In addition to their natural colourfullness some trees had received additional decorations:

And the water level in the river was very low. This part of the river is very much controlled by dams and they empty the river for the winter. For example, water flowed over this small dam during the winter – now people can use it as a bridge, as the person in the photo is doing:

Then there are the fountains, which shoot water a few meters into air during summer, and the small artificial rapids – all dry now: