A Teeny Tiny World vs. A Gigantic World One of my friends, who reads my English-Japanese blog (Thank you! ), said to me, "You know what? The ginko1 trees around here have started shooting their sprouts2 and the baby leaves are already in the shape of ginko leaves. They are so cute, so [...]
A Sign of Spring 2013 Last year, I wrote about butterburs1 under the same title. This year, horsetails which came out of the cracks2 of the concrete! It’s been unusually warm and we started enjoying the spring sunshine already. The report of the cherry-blossom front3 is making the [...]
Bird Report 2 3 days ago, when Will came back from a dog walk in the morning, he showed me this photo of a red spotted woodpecker. Right behind our house, water runs1 in a canal. Along that canal, there are trees, stretching their branches2 above the water. On one [...]
Bird Report 1 Do you remember that two blogs ago, I mentioned about Will’s camera? Here are some of the bird photos he took with his new gadget1. Oh my, oh my! …sigh… I can’t talk. Isn’t she cute? Will said, "why did you write ‘she’?" When something is cute, [...]
Yellow Carpet It was so spectacular1! What a sight! When a part of this yellow carpet peeked out2 from the opening of the hedge3, I stopped my bike, stepped into the area and walked around for 10 minutes. Actually I’ve been wanting to take some photos of ginko trees4 [...]