I read

unknown plant on the shore

"Far North " by Marcel Theroux. It was a unimaginably tough story but really intriguing. A barren image of the fields and towns lingered in my mind while I was in the story, but the story has something rich and fertile because of the main character, who is very far from me, "far north" itself.

Now, I'm reading The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion. 

春眠求む

as you see, I always fix the lomography film at a wrong position:(

spring is almost here (though we have some more cold days ahead),
and the time has just started when I suffer from pollen allergy.

"be active phyisically

and talk with your body when you are down mentally."

That simple practice does help most, for sure. 

(In fact I don't understand really how and about what to talk with my body and haven't done that, though.)

Have a nice week ahead!

晴れのち曇り

at a nearby beach; taken in November 2014

It got cloudy unfortunately when we got to the beach, but we had a really good time there. 

梅薫る

japanese plum blossom on February 16, 2015

そうだ、梅がもう咲いてるんだった、と梅の香りのお線香を灯す今日この頃。
I forgot but they had already started blooming and giving off a faint good smell.

This time last year I was visiting my mother in the hospital every day and dropping by at a shrine which has japanese plum trees in the small site. They were beautiful so I wanted to break off a branch to bring it to my mother, which I thought was nonsense (and it would be a crime!). Instead I shot the blossom with my camera and iPhone and showed her the images. It seems like a long time ago.

spending days idly

cut flowers bought on Jan. 28 still in bloom (taken on Feb. 8)

切り花って、意外ともつ。12日目にしてやっとラナンキュラスのつぼみがほころび始めた。買った時には咲いてたトルコキキョウもまだ咲いてるし。毎週の法要でお坊さんが雑談の中で興味深い話を色々してくれたが、花は枯れても飾っておいていい、それが命の有り様だから（「枯れたけんってすぐにポーイ！とかあかん」とも言うてた）、というようなことをおっしゃってて、すごく共感したんだっけ（わたしの場合はズボラからきてるのが半分だけど）。