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.