Zen

Oh my goodness.
It only took me forever and a day to get around to posting photos from my trip to Japan.
Sorry for the delay, everyone...!

One of the places we went in Kyoto was to a famous Zen temple - wall to wall gardens.
It was like walking through paradise - there was even a lake (sadly because it hadn't rained in a long while it was mostly empty, but there were still a few giant koi hanging around and a heron or two. They weren't very photogenic, mind you.

This is just a close-up of the small rocks in the zen garden itself.
There were six large boulders set into moss "islands", all surrounded by raked stones.