December ~ "the month everybody running around;))"

どうしても、山から来たのであろうこの野葡萄（写真も雑貨もセレクトのセンスのすばらしいお友達から誕生日プレゼントにいただきました！嬉しすぎる。涙涙）。

ポラロイドで撮りたい！

と、思いまして、残っていたImpossible のフィルムを全部使ったけれど（と言っても４枚だったけれど）、全滅。きーーーっとなってたら、あったのです、冷蔵庫の奥に１パックだけ、600フィルムが！！
あああ、なんてありがたい・・・！色はでないけれど、今日の被写体にはちょうどいい感じ。(blogger にアップするとなんでだか色が少し変わってしまう＞＿＜；ホンマはこんなに赤くないですー。）

12月。風が冷たくなって行くのと調べを同じくして、気持ちもきゅきゅっと引き締めて。

December has another name, "Shiwasu" (師走) in Japanese, which literally means teachers run around. The word is thought to come from the fact that in a traditional custom people visited Ise Shrine at least once in a lifetime, and there were 御師, who are said to have been the world earliest tour guides, arranging the miscellaneous things for the visits. The guides got very busy around new year when a lot of people visited Ise Shrine, running around to guide those people. And the month of December came to be called Shiwasu, which is just one story believed as the origin of the name:)

I got this dried vine of porcelain berry as a b-day present form a loveliest friend! I had an intense impulse to take a photo of this with the SX-70, so I used up the rest of Impossible films in vain:(( But I just found a pack of 600 film left in the back of the fridge! Wow!! Long time no see you! The film doesn't produce colors the way it used to be (it's expired in July 2009), but I think the condition goes very well with this dried plant. How do you like it?