Autumn has come at last and it became cold these days.
The scenery around my house looks brown or dark yellow.
lotus pond
sun flower
Fruits of the pomegranate tree in my yard began to ripen.
The seeds are shining beautifully like ruby.
It tastes sweet and sour.
It had few fruits last year, but it has many fruits this year.
tangerine in my vegetable field
Mr. Tserenpil is the fifth person I loaned ＄25 through Kiva.
He lives with his wife and three-year-old son in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia.
He operates a transportation business in the city, using a van that he owns.
He started his business in 2006.
He is requesting a loan to purchase and install a heating system, which has a boiler and a stove, in his house that he purchased a house in 2008.
He borrowed ＄1175 from 35 lenders and he scheduled to repay the money in a year.
I hope his loan would repay smoothly this time too !
* This is my page.
Spider flower
Mrs. Vilma Musa is the fourth person I loaned my money through Kiva.
I loaned her $25 through Kiva in April.
She borrowed $1,050 from 35 persons and she planned to repay all the money in eight month.
Now she finished repaying all of the money earlier than she had scheduled.
So her business seemed to have gone very well.
*She is 50 years old and a house wife with two children living in Philippines.
She is managing her own food-processing business while also managing direct-selling business and a tube- ice business.
She wants to help her husband so that their family can have a better life and she wants to provide good education for her children.
I hope her business continue to grow !
Cosmos is one of the popular flowers in Japan and they are in full bloom swinging in the autumn breeze now.
I also like this flower as well as cherry blossoms in spring.
We call this flower 'autumn cherry blossoms' too.
September 22
Rice plants planted in June have been growing very well and the farmers will harvest them before long.
Taking a walk the other day, I saw a modern style scarecrow.
The farmer made use of a head of mannequin doll.
It looked very queer for me.
Birds will not come to eat rice ears to see it !
October 5
leaves of persimmon
Some kinds of fruits in my yard began to ripen.
Though few fruits of pomegranate grew last year, I see many fruits on the tree this year.
Two kinds of persimmons tree bore lots of fruits last year, but not many this year.
Perhaps it is because of the heat of this summer.
We will be able to enjoy tangerine very much because this tree has many fruits this year too.