today's photos

(koharu's Christmas tree)


How lovely! This is koharu's Christmas tree.
She made it at school.
She brought it home yesterday.

When her brother admired her tree.
koharu looked very happy.
We all love koharu's Christmas tree.

(my nan-ten)


This is my nan-ten.
It is planted in front of my daughter's house.
I was given a young plant of nan-ten four years ago.
It is very quick to grow.

too sentimental?

It's true we get more sentimental as we grow older.

Nan-ten is very important to me because it reminds
me of a happy time in the past.

My husband was a brain surgeon. He was clever with
his hands. He was very good at cooking, too.

I remember a bowl made of ice which was 1cm thick.
It was a very beautiful transparent bowl
with a few nan-ten leaves in the ice.

Yes, my husband made the ice bowl for us to enjoy so-men
one summer.

Nan-ten I saw today was waving in the strong wind.
It was growing up into the blue sky.
What a beautiful sky! Are you waiting for me there?

today's photos

It's a fine day again.
I have just come home from my community center.

On my way back I took pictures.
I was surprised to see a swan in a patch of sunlight.

fair to rainy

The sky was so blue and there was no cloud to be seen.
Today's weather forecast was for 'fair to shower.'

Yes, the forecast came true.
It began to rain in the evening.
I walked home in the rain.

What a beautiful blue sky! (at eleven this morning)

early winter morning

It's a fair and calm morning.
I enjoy the blue sky among the trees.

Many of trees here are dropping their leaves.
The wind is drifting the fallen leaves
against the hedge of tamagawa-josui.

What a peaceful morning!

A friend of my good old friends made and sent me
nice caps to put on the tops of my karin-bottles.
She likes doing embroidery. Lovely wild plants are
embroidered on them. How nice!

I preserve karin, Japanese quince, with honey every year.
I eat a few slices of karin and put a little honey on my
toast for breakfast.
Karin with honey has made me strong, I believe.

How thoughtful of you to make these caps for me!
I'll think of you every morning when I twist the cap off
my karin-bottle.

Thank you so much, dear friend!