paying a visit to a friend's on one winter day

ずいぶんと前のことだけど、センスの良さが溢れ出る彼女の新しい家にお邪魔した，時の写真。スキャン設定間違えて、写真がこんな小さめでごめんなさい。冬だったけど、あまり寒さを感じなかったような。。。この暑い真っ盛りには寒さの記憶は蘇りにくいもの。グリーンやドライフラワーなどさりげないしつらえ、シンプルな家具、古道具使い、すべてが素敵だった。一番のツボは足場板をふんだんに使った床。かっこいいなー、とひたすらため息。

I really love these floor boards. They are so cool with paint spots, aren't they? 

I took these photos at a friend's, who has a good sense of things including home decor as you can see from these pics. It was a winter day, but I can't remember whether it was very cold or not.

aちゃん、このくらいの露出ならいいでしょうか。笑
素敵なうつわでのお茶時間もありがとう。

all photos taken with Bessaflex + Asahi Super Takumar 55mm:f1.8 + Kodak royal 200

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?