fall bike ride

i took off from my house and rode towards the school. then i headed west. this is from the shinto shrine to the west from my school.
this is a buddhist temple. it's one of the 88temples.
moooo. it's so sad here. the livestock have no space to roam. they just stay in the pins. i'm used to a large expanse where the cows can move around.
a little path on the side of the temple grounds.
i perfer this kind of buddha to the fat one. this one (amida perhaps?) looks enlightened as opposed to jolly.
this scary fellow had coins thrown at him, probably to pacify him. many throwers were lucky to get their coins into the space around his neck.
i don't know what this means, but it scares me!
this torii was at the buddhist shrine. the torii is shinto, so another good example of the blending of the two religions in japan.
and here is the red flower of fall. their popping up everywhere!