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Sa-ku-ra ra-n

2005-09-30 | plant

 The flower of  'Sa-ku-ra ra-n' is blooming in the pot now.
The petals are thick and look like waxwork.

As its color looks like cherry blossoms, we may call this flower 'Sa-ku-ra ra-n'.

Some young leaves are also pink and pretty. 


 

 

 


Rice field

2005-09-29 | rice field (farming)
September 26

The color of rice fields are changing gold day by day.

Soon they will harvest rice-plants.

As they weren't damaged by heavy wind by typhoon and other conditions were also good this year, the rice harvest will be rich.

I heard they had already harvested in some district and that new-rice were sold.

Proverb 57

2005-09-28 | proverb
Ko-mu-ra-sa-ki

Ill news travels fast.

We hear various kinds of news which is happening all over the world every day.
In this I.T. period, we can get these news at once through internet, TV, radio, newspaper and so on.
Especially, bad news spreads at once and everyone knows them.

We can't do bad things without not being known to someone !

Sponge gourd

2005-09-24 | plant
These are flowers and fruit of 'Sponge gourd';(He-chi-ma).

We can make a sponge from the fruit.
After soaking it into water for some time, we remove rotten flesh and cuticle.
Only the fibers are left and we can use it as a sponge.



We can make make-up water from the plant.
First we cut its vine and gather water into a pot.
And we put some oil or like that into the water.
It is natural water, so it is good for our skin.

The water is also used as cough stop.

I had ever made them, but I don't now.



Rural scenery nowadays

2005-09-20 | scenery

Equinoctial week has come.
And cluster-amaryllis;(Spider-lily) began to bloom here and there.
We also call this flower 'Hi-ga-n ba-na' as they bloom around 'O-hi-ga-n'.

 Rice field are like this.
After about a month, they will harvest these rice-plants.

Rich fall is around  the corner ! 

 

 


 

 

 


Flower of sweet potao

2005-09-11 | plant
The flower of sweet potato seldom bloom except for Okinawa island in Japan.
It needs a certain condition of sunshine and nutrition to bloom.

But part of the plants happened to have some flowers in Shizusan's vegetable field this year.
So she brought them home to show me the flower.

It was the first time I saw them,

*I took these pictures on August 30 and 31.

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