ガレージセール！

a broken ceramic bat　コウモリさん。。。涙

写真展も残りは水曜から金曜の３日間（5/19はカフェお休みです）。
そしていよいよ、準備を整えなくては。。。というわけで、来週25〜29日のすきま時間に、自宅にて雑貨や本などのガレージセールをすることにしました。
小物、紙ものと本(¥100~¥2000)は早い者勝ち、ちょっと大物（？）は5/25正午までにメールで申し込みくださいませ（抽選になる場合もございます）。
見に来てくださる方も、メールでご連絡ください。＜時間相談のため；なんせ狭いとこなので。

メール：tengteco@ジーメールドットコム（カタカナ部分はアルファベット小文字と記号に変えてくださいませ）

ちょっと大物リストはこちら。

このごろのこと／これからのこと

taken on Apr. 27; PENTAX SP + Carl Zeiss Ultron 1.8/50 + KODAK ProFoto XL100

８日から開催中の写真展は折り返し地点です。

SUNS ADDMODO COFFEE （サンズアドモード）にて２２日迄開いております。展示してある写真はご希望の方には販売もします。（フィルムスキャンから阿波和紙にインクジェットプリント／A3大¥3,000；A3小¥1,500；A4¥1,000）

ゴールデンウィークには家族そろって（わたしにとっては）初めてのいちご狩りに出かけた。甥っ子たちがイチゴが大好物なのでしっかり元は取れるぜ、ふふふ。。。と思っていたが、直前のラーメンが逆に効いたか、思ったほどは食べられなかった。いやいや、わたしら大人がその分は頑張った。それにしても暑かった。。。いちご狩りはもういいです。一生分楽しんだ！

そうやってゴールデンウィーク中の短い休みに、つくねっち（猫）まで連れて弟その２夫婦がわざわざ帰ってきてくれたのは、わたしの転職＆引っ越しのためでした。

来月からセブ島で暮らします！

My photo exhibition has 10 days left. It feels like days are flying, especially since the exhibition started, and the day I leave Japan is fixed. Yes, I leave my home and Japan soon to start a new life for the first time in my life. I'm going to move to Cebu, the Philippines. I'm a bit nervous as it is the first time I live other than my home as I said, and worried about my father. I'm not fully prepared for a new work there but excited and happy about it:))

"CATS ROCK!"

sleepy cat

今日のタイトルは写真展のタイトル。

昨日急ぎ作ったフライヤーを何箇所か地元のお店に置かせてもらいます。（ありがとうございます！）

I'll have a personal exhibition of cats' photos and here is the information:

CATS ROCK! --- a photo exhibition
when ：5/8 ~ 5/22
where：SUNS ADDMODO COFFEE  
            サンズ アドモード / 徳島市西新浜町１丁目４−８−２
tel/fax：088-662-3375
open/close：10:00/18:00（不定休）

look up, look forward

my two-year-old grape growing rapidly

２年目のぶどう、わさわさと葉っぱを出して、超ミニチュアのぶどうの実がもうついてる！

ともだちが、新しい道へ進んで、それぞれみんながんばってる。
わたしも、一歩踏み出す。
久しぶりに写真展をやります！@SUNS ADDMODO COFFEE

the change of seasons

taken in late May, 2014

It's still spring but seems like I am at the change of season: I have not suffered from pollen fever this spring, but today I have a runny nose! The pollen report says there are little pollen in the air today, though. What is making me sneeze and have a runny nose?

Dogwood trees are almost in full bloom by the way:)

花粉はものすごく少ないらしいのに、なぜわたしの鼻は今日に限ってこんなにむずむずだらだら？季節の変わり目？？

photo uploaded (& leftover photos)

I uploaded a new post again on my portfolio site. 

この場所からの景色が気に入って、何枚も撮った。

photos being uploaded

I'd appreciate it if you'd take time to check out my portfolio blog:))

なんにもないのに

Yes, I took a lot of photos like this using a loupe this spring...

部屋にはいっぱいありすぎる。

中断してた断捨離、きっちりやらねば。

って考えただけで、すでに腰が引けてる。

listen to birds singing in the rain

It has been raining almost every day these 2 weeks (or I just feels so). But wild birds are busy twittering, singing. Here in a small town where I live, they are heard to chirp beautifully. I can't specify what kind the birds are; I just enjoy listening to them.

菜の花の黄色が黄色の中でも一番好きだ。

morning

a tiny varied tit coming to feed at my uncle's house 

ヤマガラのべーちゃん２号（誰がどれだかわからん＞m＜）ひまわりの種より落花生の方が好きなんだって。もうすぐ子育ての時期なので？食べる食べる食べる！

霧、雨、花

a bus stop under cherry trees in full bloom
Too bad the film didn't capture it well enough
(I pixelmatored the exposure and colors, etc.)

in a gentle wind

and bright mild sunshine we enjoyed the cherry blossoms

コンビニでお弁当とビールを買って花見。

reflection

I have been on the Internet long so I have a lot of acquaintances, but only a very few friends. Some of them I have never met in person nor will ever meet, but I feel I'm very deeply connected with them. (That is just my imagination, perhaps?) I really appreciate their concern and encouragement. They send me strength. I hope I'll be of help to them in some form some day.

寝目(いめ)

I don't remember seeing your eyes closed in those days; what were you thinking?

Now you're gone, I spend my days just in vain. 

I dream every day and night; some of the dreams I remember well, some I don't. 

drowsy

free

365 days

PENTAX SP, Asahi Super Takumar 1.8/55, Kodak T-Max100

It's kind of odd to think more of someone after she/he died. I should have while she was alive.

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）。

And then there are none

but me.

21 years have gone since

Lovely, isn't she:)) / taken in September 2014

分身

目力その2

生きる力

 

目力/powerful look; taken with LOMO LC-A in September 2013

It's Sunny Caturday

I wish I could see these blues now with you.

just resting

taken in November 2013

I ask to myself if it's just a rest or a complete loss of something.

雨、雨

Rose flowers inWinter; taken in December 2010 with Polaroid 600 film
I wonder if roses still bloom there.
ふと思い出した。このバラ、今でも咲き続けてるんだろうか。

冬はほどけはじめてますか？

taken with Olympus ep-1, in January 2011

Is winter thawing in your place?

Here in Japan, it is 'Daikan', which word is used in an old calendar, meaning the coldest time in the year. 

朝も昼も夜も

ひねもすのたりのたりかな

I just want to look at you all day long.

uneasy

taken with expired Polaroid 600 film in 2010

quiet

It was a very quiet Sunday, as is true of any other day.
I don't watch TV nor listen to music very much these days.

I try to listen to you breathing.

有為無常

夜風微凉　树摇月晃

云儿在飛　我在想

水流　花儿香

一片夜色放心上

喜中带忧　暗中有光

怎么度　怎么量

田野　山岗

美丽之下的凄凉

無常

你看那山色湖光

你看那蓝天白杨

看不到一丝渺茫

你再看海天碧浪

你再看晚霞曙光

禁不住匆匆忙忙

把希望留给失望

la.............

（無常 by 王菲）

今日は少し暖かで

all I think of is cats

今日は雨

Fallen Camelia; It rained today but I don't have a photo of falling rain to post here.

in the sunny spot

taken in November 2014; one of those window cats

for your warm and comfy life

Koma, in January 2014

コマさんぽ

Precious

Koma, 10 years old; taken in January 2004

泥沼

Sima, in July 2003, when she had both eyes

I have been sorting my old photos, throwing away many of them. But there are too many and I'm already tired, at a loss how to finish it off, or rather I doubt that it will come to an end.

passage

I left a lot of things unattended, just leaving them withered as time goes by with dust gathering on them. I  throw such things away at last. Precious memories only stay in my heart, though some of them perhaps go away. That's OK for me.

年明けて

cats living in a park; PENTAX SP + Carl Zeiss Ultron 1.8/50 + KODAK ProFotoXL100

コマさんはこの正月もつくニャン（つくね：元の名をクチン）が刺激になったのか、この21年食べたことないものを次々とお食べになった。
白菜(芯が好み)、大根、蕪、里芋(これはおでんのさつま揚げの中に入ってた)、ゴボウ、マッシュルーム。
そんなにたくさん食べるわけじゃないけど、ものによっては、もっとおくれやす、と催促する。
人がおさんどんしてる時、食卓に着いた時、とにかく何かもらわないと絶対に気がすまない超おいやし系コマさん。頼もしい。
つくニャンにもそこそこ教育して差し上げたんよね。笑

コマとつくねのフィルム写真は撮ってないので、似た色の猫さん達の写真。

tangled

taken in late November; w/ RolleiflexT

小雪の終わり頃、古寺にて

多分、３日に撮ったもの＠丈六寺

This is from those photos I took on December 3 (or 4; I forgot which day). I only visited this old temple twice to photograph autumn/winter foliage this year, though I had visited many more times for these 10 years. So I missed seeing the most colorful moments at the temple this winter. OK. I still have next fall/winter to come, probably.

 There are some more photos...

とんでもなく寒い

see another photo?

先週は抵抗力が落ちてしまって風邪菌をもらってやっつけられなかったみたいで、日曜日からずいぶん苦しめられている。弱り目に祟り目、ってやつか。
そして今、深々と冷えてきて、雪も降ってきて。明日はとんでもなく寒いそうで。
みなさまもご自愛くださいませ。

Looks like I got physically and mentally tired last week and couldn't fight off the virus I've caught a cold. Have been suffering from the soar throat and the runny nose. And it is getting really cold, too cold for the place where I live. True falling snow is beautiful, but I hate cold, worried about homeless cats...
The cold really deprives me of drive and energy to do things, though I have some things to do for this time of the year. Well, I'll take a good rest tomorrow.

We are All Right

”時のままに  /  風はまわる” (excerpt from the words of a song by ユニコーン)