A Letter from Blue Sky and Sea - Izu Shimoda Photo Diary

2015/05/24 Hydrangea in our field

We sometimes had a little sun light through the clouds in the sky, but it had been almost cloudy today.

The hydrangea in our field is now getting colored little by little. The hydrangea festival will take place at Shimoda park next month.

 

2015/04/05 Twilight time at Sakura street in Shimoda

In my hometown, Miyazaki prefecture in Kyushu, it was the first hottest day this year with over 30 degrees centigrade.

As we sometimes have a little cold day we can't imagine such a hot day.

This is a Sakura street along the river in Shimoda.

If it was sunny there would be a lot of people coming to see Sakura blossoms, but there was nobody even it was Sunday.

2015/03/25 Spring has come!

It was a little windy, but very hot here in Shirahama today.

The flowers around Pension Sakuraya are now fully blooming.

2015/03/02 A Carptet of Kawazu Sakura Blossoms

I found out a lot of petals fallen down from Kawazu Sakura trees at the parking lot in Shirahama, because we had heavy rain yesterday.

But it looked like a carpet of cherry blossoms...

2015/02/28 Rape Blossoms at Pension Sakuraya

It was sunny here in Shirahama today.

Kawazu Sakura tree in our field is getting finished blooming, but we can see rape blossoms just in front of Pension Sakuraya building.

Our customers who stayed today said there were a lot of people came to see Sakura blooming on the river side in Kawazu town.

I think it will be the best timing to see Sakura blooming next week.

2015/02/24 Kawazu Sakura Trees at Shimoda Harbor

After I took my daughter to the train station this morning I took these pictures at Shimoda harbor on the way home.

We can find out a lot of Kawazu Sakura trees in and around Shimoda, but most of them are now fully blooming!

It would be the best timing to see Sakura blossoms.

2015/02/20 Spring or Winter in Izu?

When I took my daughter to the school this morning I found out Frozen Dews on the leaves on the liver side in Rendaiji, Shimoda.

It was the first time for me to see it!!

Has spring already come to Izu peninsula? or are we still in winter?

2015/02/15 Mt. Fuji & White Eye on Kawazu Sakura Tree

My family and I went to Shizuoka to meet my daughter yesterday.

On the way to Shizuoka, we could see the gorgeous Mt. Fuji with snow clearly under the blue sky.

By the way, after I came back from walking on the beach I saw a could of white eye in our garden this afternoon.

 

2015/01/24 Kawazu Sakura blooming

In Japan there are a lot of kinds of Sakura, but this Kawazu Sakura is very famous for its early blooming.

Of course, Kawazu Sakura tree just in front of the entrance of Pension Sakuraya has already started to bloom.

But it's a little bit earlier than usual to bloom.

2015/01/09 Ogasaki Wing, One of Good View Points in Shimoda

Are you coming to Shimoda by car? or do you like walking?

It was very beautiful day again, so I walked on the beach and went to Ogasaki Wing.

This is a very good view points which has a gorgeous landscape with the Pacific Ocean, Izu Seven Islands, and Shirahama Beach.

It takes about an hour by walking from Pension Sakuraya.

If you take route #135, you should stop at this point and take a break.

You can see 14 pictures which I took today on our Facebook. Click here !!

2014/12/28 Daffodil (Narcissus) Festival at Tsumekizaki Cape in Shimoda

I went to Tsumekizaki-cape yesterday, where the daffidil flower festival has been taking place since December 20th.

We had very strong north wind there but we could see the beautiful scenery under the blue sky.

The daffodil blooming is now about 50%, and it's much earlier than usual.

The good time to see the flowers is usually after the middle of January, but the next new year holidays will be the best timing, I guess.

2014/12/15 Early blooming of Sakura tree in our garden

When I came back home after shopping in Shimoda I found out small blossoms on the tree next to the entrance of Pension Sakuraya.

I didn't know when it started blooming.

By the way, It had been almost sunny here in Shimoda today.

I could see Izu seven islands on the ocean clearly this morning.

2014/11/24 Shirahama Beach today

When I was walking on the seaside road I found some sparrows looked like musical note on the fence.

The narcssus has already started blooming in our garden.

2014/11/14 Aloe Flowers in Shirahama

As we will have the Aloe flowers festival next month the local community had a work of weeding at the Aloe field at Itado beach in Shirahama this morning.

Today it was very beautiful, but we sometimes had a little strong west wind.

The aloe flowers have already started to open!

2014/10/21 Rain, Flower and Sky

It had been rainy since this morning, but the blue sky appeared after that.

When I walked I found out the rain drop on the flowers.

2014/06/22 Hydrangea on Perry Road

I went to Shimoda and went to Perry Road to take pictures.

The hydrangea is now fully blooming in Shimoda, and there were a lot of visitors it was rainy though.

If you would like to see Hydrangea Festival in Shimoda, click the link below.

Hydrangea Festival in Shimoda

Pension Sakuraya in Shimoda

2014/06/21 Shirahama Beach today

It was cloudy all day here in Shirahama today.

There are a lot of kinds of flowers on the slope in front of Pension Sakuraya.

And we can see beautiful flowers blooming in each season.

I went to the nearest beach "Shirahama Beach" to take pictures.

There were a lot of people on the beach, It was cloudy though.

Some of them were surfing, walking, sleeping, and swimming.

2014/06/04 Hydrangea in our garden

The hydrangea in our garden is getting colored day after day.

Do you know the color of hydrangea is different depending on the gredients of soil is acid or alkaline?

2014/05/23 Raining in Shirahama

When we have rain in the morning I take my children to their school by car.

I took this picture at the beach on the way home this morning.

2014/05/18 The most beautiful day in these days

It has been sunny since last Friday, but it was the most beautiful day of this weekend today.

We didn't have wind and we could see Izu Oshima island clearly from the terrace of Pension Sakuraya.

There are many kinds of flower around Pension Sakuraya and the flowers are now blooming.

Yes, the summer has come here in Shimoda!

By the way, this is our son, Yuuki.

He was putting on the his elder sister's hut.

2014/05/13 Yellow Flowers in Shirahama

We had heavy rain in Shimoda this morning.

But the sun came back again after noon.

When I went to the beach for walking I found out the yellow flowers on the way.

This flower makes me feel that the early summer is coming soon!!

2014/04/17 Butterfly in our garden

It was very warm here in Shirahama today.

A lot of bugs seemed to be very busy to get lunch under the sun shine.

2014/04/04 Blue Sea Shirahama and Sakura Blossoms Falling

It was sunny today and we had blue sky after several days.

After the fully blooming of Sakura the petals of Sakura trees in Shimoda are falling by wind now.

 

 

 

2014/04/01 Sakura blossoms in Shimoda

I went to Shimoda with my son for cycling today.

All of Sakura trees in Shimoda are almost fully blooming.

2014/03/28 Cycling in Minami Izu town

It was sunny and very warm today, so I went to Minami Izu town with my son to ride a bicycle and play on the beach.

Click here to see the other photos on my Facebook.

2014/03/11 Sakura Festival in Minami Izu town was over!

I went to Minami Izu town yesterday, on the last day of Sakura festival.

It takes about 25 nimutes by car from Shirahama.

Almost of every Sakura trees were fully blooming, and some of them had already had green leaves.

The festival was finished yesterday, but we will be able to see blooming for more 1 week there.

 

2014/02/28 Shirahama Beach and Sakura falling down

When I was walking on the seaside road this morning I took some photos.

It was sunny and the warmest day this year today!

That's why I saw some young peeple got into the water at the beach this morning.

 
 

The Sakura petals were fallen down by the rain yesterday.

2014/02/24 Sakura blossoms in Shimoda

We had a little cold north wind, but it was sunny and very warm here in Shimoda today.

In this season we can see a lot of Sakura blossoms at many places in Shimoda.

2014/02/20 Bird on Sakura tree

There are a lot of familiar garden birds around our Pension.

And this is one of them, called brown-eared gulgul.

But it is very difficult to take pictures of this bird because he (or she) is moving quickly among the branches of Sakura tree.

But I did it at last today!!

 

2014/02/13 White eye on Kawazu Sakura tree

We had a little sun light today, and it was warmer than yesterday.

The weather forecast says it will be snowy tomorrow again!!