The seeds of Se-n-ryo became red. The contrast between red and green is like a Christmas color. We use this plant for a flower arrangement of New Year too. Mouse on ! > I'm very happy to find this mouse on tag ! Because I couldn't use the …

I happened to see an an eighty-six year old man I know well while walking the other day.He keeps lots of honey bees in his vegetable field and was preparing the bees to pass the winter then. He opened the box to show me the nests of honey…

Ginkgo I learned about the way of taking good pictures on a TV program; 'Se-i-ka-tsu ho-tto mo-o-ni-n-gu' yesterday. Mr.Nobuyosho Araki who is a famous man known as 'a genius photographer'. He said as follows. 1 Taking pictures is the same…

These are the pictures of sunset on November 21. Click change ! Yesterday was 'syo-u-se-tsu' that is one of the 24 seasonal datum points in in Japan. It is the time when it begins to snow. In fact it snowed in Hokkaido today. According to …

Farmers are drying radishes by hanging on 'Ha-de-gi' before they make pickles of radish. Click change ! These are plants of soybean that are also hung on 'Ha-de-gi'. After they become dry ones, farmers pat them with a tool and take beans o…

Various kinds of chrysanthemum I saw many beautiful chrysanthemums blooming in the vegetable field of my acquaintance the other day. The color of these flowers is so nice ! This white one is blooming in my yard now. We call this one 'Darum…

The leaves of dogwoods in my yard have turned red. I planted these trees about ten years ago. I've never seen such a beautiful red leaves as this till this year because they fell down to the ground before turning red. I see many buds that …

The leaves of the tree are turning red and yellow now. I went sightseeing to Ta-i-sha-ku-kyo and Sa-n-da-n-kyo in Hi-ro-shi-ma prefecture yesterday. It was my first visit there. Ta-i-sha-ku-kyo is one of the semi-national parks and we see …

Click change ! It's rainy in the morning and cloudy in the afternoon today. There were lightning and thunders last night and the rainfall made the farmers glad. It's unusual to have thunderstorm in this season. But the plants and flowers m…

Sunset at 17:01 Social networking service named 'My space' started their service in Japan the day before yesterday.This networking service is very popular and number of registered users is the largest in the world.Though I had heard about…

These are husks of rice paddy. After removing husk of rice paddy, we scatter them in the vegetable field or rice field. We sometimes roast them to kill tiny insect or bacillus in the hull.While roasting, we used to put some sweet potatoes…

【☆*☆Good Evening☆*☆】>c=(oゝｖ・)ノ Sending e-mails, younger generation nowadays use the emoticons very well.I haven't use them because I didn't know how to use them. 。・；´∧｀；・。 Today I was shown the way of using them by a blogger.S…

Taking a walk the other day, I saw Sasanqua blooming in the yard of a house.So I took this picture from under the tree.The color of pink is very cute. I'm looking forward to seeing various winter flowers from now on !