Thanks for the input, Rad.
The first picture is easily the least likely of the set - but, I decided to upload it alongside the other simply to put in some variance and add a little contrast in concept. (It's actually the second upload, they are linked in opposite because it was on my clipboard as the most recent thing I uploaded heheh)
While most of the pictures turned out with a sort of serenity, almost wabi-sabi in nature, it's contrasty, blurry, and ugly. Mostly due to using a different macros setting on my camera (i took a few like it, and a few like the other). It's there mostly as a 'may as well put up something different, too.'

The second (first upload) is probably one of my favourite photos I've taken (and seems to be liked by most people to whom it's been shown). A wallpaper size would probably be a good idea - what sort of resolutions are most people using these days? I might make a few of them.

A note on the stick - it's a walking stick used on Mt. Fuji. I never climbed the mountain, I panicked at the last second and sat it out at the half-way point up the mountain (where most American's start their ascent). I think I had more fun that way, anyway. The stick is something of a sentimental object to me, despite being almost mass-produced for every Japanese and gaijin that goes up the mountain.
What the kanji say, I have no idea.
[edit to add]apparently, after a little research, the top set is the kanji for Mt. Fuji - still no clue about the other set