謹賀新年 Une bonne année!

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I appreciate all of your comments for my photos so much.
I wish myself to meet these nice models this year, too.

If it says so, her voice resembles the voice of a cat in the mating season.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQVWbpcKMWQ



(八潮一丁目、Yashio, Shinagawa ward)

鶴と紅梅 gateaux pour la nouvelle année

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The cake for the new year are crane and red Ume (Japanese pram).
I remember the day when I had a very happy time with Irma at this cake shop.
(椿山虎屋、阿佐谷南、Asagayaminami, Suginami ward)

アオサギ un heron

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It's a long long neck it has.

(京浜運河,Keihin canal, Shinagawa ward)

高柳一家の写真展 l'exposition photographique

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A family holds their photo exhibition at Mitaka.
The old father and mother have loved taking photos.
And their children do so.
I fully enjoy their happy life photographies.

(下連雀三丁目、Shimorenjaku, Mitaka city, Tokyo)

離水失敗 le décollage échoué

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It is just failing to lift itself in the air from the water.
I watch its vain effort several times.
It floats on the canal water, and then starts to run....and fails again.
Half an hour later, I try to find him. But there is no young bird.
It can fly away, I believe.

(高浜運河、Takahama canal, Konan, Minato ward)

阿佐ヶ谷駅前花壇 le parterre

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The Tokyo Metropolitan Nogei High School was founded in 1900.
Frankly speaking, I didn't have known the name of this high school until I found this signboard which surprised me. « Wao, there is an agricultural high school in Tokyo! »

(阿佐ヶ谷駅北口、阿佐谷北２丁目、Asagayakita, Suginami ward)

落葉に夢中 le charme de la feuille morte

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The falling leaves are carried with the wind into the station. A boy finds a perfect shape one and takes it. Though his mother want to make him hurry to home, he wouldn't move to watch it.

(成瀬駅、南成瀬、Naruse station, Minaminaruse, Machida city, Tokyo)

冬至飾り le solstice d'hiver

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Those muddy vegetable ornaments remind me; today is the winter solstice.

(陽光園、阿佐谷北２丁目、Asagayakita, Suginami ward)

Davaja Marina

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Yoko Oda (小田陽子)is a Latin Jazz singer who plays at the Asagaya Jazz Street every year.
But this night I listen Davaja Marina. I remember the melody. It's of the Million Roses. It's the song of a painter who gets millions of roses for his leaving lover to fill the square under his room. The song always makes me laugh. But Yoko sings other verse. I get her CD.

Davaja Marina is the original song in Latvia.
Here, the Latvian singer, Ance Krausze sings;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT0muCFGyfA

And here, a Latvian rap which makes me drop a tear;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usVrkkTRbO4

(阿佐ヶ谷駅、Asagaya station, Suginami ward)

婆ちゃんと高尾山に行く un petit-fils

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A boy is going to the Takao Mountain with his grand mother.
She worries her grand son would break the ticket.

(京王線、the Keio train), Keio-Shinjuku station, Shinjuku ward)