My husband uncovered white thin cloth today.
White rice sprouts have turned to beautiful green.
They are about 3cm now.
It's the season of strawberry.
But this tiny red fruit isn't a strawberry though we call it 'Snake Strawberry'; 'He-bi I-chi-go' in Japanese.
We can see them along the footpath and in the field now.
Five days have passed since we sowed seed paddies.
My husband put the boxes of seed paddies on the ground and covered them with thin cloth.
We can see white sprouts of paddies grown from a few millimeters to one centimeter.
My husband will water them every day till he plants them to rice fields.
It was a hot day today.
Taking a walk, I could see a beautiful sunset at the side of a pond.
On taking these pictures, the sun set behind the mountain.
The season of rice planting has begun.
We sowed seed paddies yesterday using a machine.
A few days after, we will put these ninety boxes on the ground.
we will be able to harvest about 2 tons of rice at the beginning of October.
Thanks to Mr. Cakeater, I managed to paste Clustrmaps on this blog.
I can see the locations and the number of visitors to this blog.
It's very interesting.
Though Mr. Cakeater introduced this map last August by commenting to my blog, I couldn't paste it.
I didn't know how to paste.
But yesterday, I happened to success to paste .
I feel that the world is connecting more.
Thank you very much Mr. Cakeater !
I heard the sound of pipe, drum, bell and gong from somewhere this morning.
It was the sound of Lion dance called Shi-shi-ma-i .
They come from Izumo in Shimane prefecture around this time of the year and they go to house to house to dance. It will bring us good luck , good health and so on.
It came to my house before noon and danced for a few minutes after giving me three kinds of notes.
By the way, this dance called I-se Da-i-ka-gu-ra is specified as an important intangible cultural heritage and formless folk customs cultural asset.
We should value cultures like this.
It was a very warm day today and flowers of peony began to bloom in my yard.
This flower is very gorgeous and it smells good.
So I love this flower very much.