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Today it was rainy as yesterday.
When it rainy it frustrated me because I can't go anywhere to take pictures.
Anyway I went out to check out the outside condition and I found two green birds came to the cherry tree next to our building.
Do you know why they came? .......
Continue reading "Rain, Cherry blossom (Kawazu Sakura) and White eye" »
We have some kinds of Sakura in our garden.
But this tree has already had a lot of blossoms.
This Sakura is one of kinds of Kawazu Sakura which is very famous for blooming earlier than Yomeiyoshino.
But I planted its seed several years ago, in another word, this sakura is raised from seed.
So this sakura is a little different from real Kawazu Sakura.
For example......
Continue reading "Sakura is blooming in our garden. - - 2009/01/29" »
"We couldn't see a beutiful sunrise this morning, but we are lucky because we could take a picture of gorgeous sunrise yesterday morning."
Our guests who came from Taiwan and stayed for 2 nights said so when they checked out this morning.
As usual I went to the primary school with my daughter this morning and I took this picture on the way to home.
It wasn't clear by cloud on the horizon this mornig, so our guests couldn't get beautiful senery.
The weather forcast says it will be a little warmer after the middle of this week.
By the way do you have hey fever?
We have to worry about it after Wednesday because it will be warm after that.
In our garden we have some kinds of cherry blossom, and this is one of them, called "Kawazu Sakura".
Every year we have "Kawazu Sakura Festival" in Kawazu town and Minami Izu town on February and March.
However this year this tree has already started to bloom. (I took this picture with my mobile phone. That's why this picture is not good.)
My friends who is a specialist of cherry blossom said,
"This tree is blooming early in this area."
He has a lot of cherry trees in his field but most of them have only 1 or 2 cherry blossoms.
I think this tree will be fully bloomed at the beginning of February.
I'm looking forward to seeing that.
Have you ever gotten on this train?
This train is called Limited Express Train "Super View Odoriko".
If you travel to Shimoda with small child by train from Tokyo area I recommend you this train because this train has a particuler space for children.....
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How have you been?
We had 3 holidays until yesterday and we went to my wife's home in Kanagawa.
My children were very happy because they could meet thieir cousins and spend thier time with them.
Thank you very much.
By the way I went to Shirahama beach after 3 days with my son, Yuuki this afternoon.
He is stressful because he often stay in our home all day, so when we went to the beach he started to run soon.
I show you pictures which I took today.....
Continue reading "Blue sea again! - - Shirahama Beach in Shimoda" »
This morning, I walked with my daughter as usual, and when I was coming back home I found an interesting phenomenon on the beach.
It was a Frost smoke or an ice fog caused by extremely cold air flowing over a body of comparatively warm water.
The lowest temprature of Shirahama area was about 5 degrees, but the water was over 17 degrees in this season.
That's why I could see this phenomenon this morning.
Today, the time of sunrise was 6:54 am.
I started to go to the shool with my daughter and the children at 7:00 am as usual and I walked down the hill.
I found that the sun was shining in the cloud and took this photo.
This morning I could see the sun with cloud and it was gorgeous scenery.
In the afternoon I went to Shimoda for shoping by bike and .......
Continue reading "Sunrise and Izu seven islands in the late afternoon" »
It was very cold today too like yesterday.
I walked with the children who go to Shirahama elementary school as usual this morning.
When we were walking on the national road one of the children found and cried,
"Look at this! The leaf is frozen!!"
Actually the water is frozen on leaves because of the low temprature.
I show the another photo......
Continue reading "Wao, leaves are frozen!? - - Shirahama, Shimoda" »
This morning I started to walk to the elementary school at 7:00 am with my daughter and the other children as usual.
When we went down the hill the sun was just rising up next to Toshima island.
Then one of children found something on the road and said,
"Look at this! The water is frozen here!"
The sea water is about 17 degrees even in this season but the water outside is sometimes frozen.
After I finished to prepare some things for today's guests I went out for biking in this afternoon.
It was rainy this morning but it was changed at around 11:00 am and it became sunny after that.
I took this photo at 3:30 pm but the water was still blue and beautiful, and I could see Toshima island, one of Izu seven islands, over the ocean.
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According weather forcast it will be sunny tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.
It was very beautiful day today too.
There are many ships on the ocean and I could see Izu Oshima Island under the blue sky.
I wanted to go to the beach today but I couldn't because of my job.
"It can't be helped."
I was talking to myself and took this picture from our guest room.
I went to the beach with my son, Yuuki today. (Yuuki is on the bottom of this photo.)
I took this picture by the river at the center of the beach.
It was rainy and very cold yesterday, but it became warm today and the air was clear.
So I could see Izu seven island over the ocean.
Let's move to the south point of this beach....
Continue reading "I went to the beach with my son, Yuuki." »
We have some cherry trees in our garden.
This afternoon my son, yuuki said,
"I want to play with my tricycle outside!
He is boring to play alone in his room and he wants to play outside.
"OK, Yuuki. Let's go!"
When we went out and I found Sakura tree has a lot of buds on it, and when I was going to take photos I noticed that this tree has already had some blossoms.
Yes, spring has come to Shirahama!
Cherry blossom festival will take place from February 5th or 7th this year.
I got up early this morning and I left my home with my daughter to go to school.
On the way to school I found that the sun was just rising on the horizon, so I started to run to take photos.
Today we had big waves in Shirahama and I could take this photo with the water broken by stone.
As we didn't have customers we went to Shirahama Shrine today.
The Japanese usually go to shrine to pray for health, happy and success at the new year.
This shrine has a history of more than 2,500 years, so this is a oldest shrine in Izu peninsula.
After praying in the shrice we went to the sea behind this shrine.....
Thank you for staying at Sakuraya last year.
We are looking forward to meeting you this year again.
We wish you a happy new year!!
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