Picnic in the Park

Early last month, we took advantage of a warm spring day to explore a nearby park that we had never visited. We took a picnic lunch and enjoyed the green trees, blue sky, and (mostly) peaceful quiet. There were beautiful flowers, huge bumblebees, and a tree that had pink (!) leaves. If you recognize what kind of tree that is from the photo, please tell me.

Mystery Tree

Rose Garden 2013

Last month, we took our annual trip to the nearby rose garden in Igashira Park in Moka. When we arrived, there were about ten other people in the garden, but slowly, one by one, in pairs, in groups, they left the park until we were alone. A wonderful, beautiful, peaceful time.

Just as we were thinking about leaving, Nozomi whisper-shouted, "look! over there!" On the edge of the garden, near the forest that surrounds it, a rabbit was hopping through the roses. We slowly followed him and he slowly hopped into the hedge that separates the garden from the forest. I tried to take a picture; look carefully and you can see him in the photo with the hedge. A few minutes later, we saw a second rabbit near the entrance, and watched him hop away into the roses.

Back to blogging

I took a long break from blogging, mostly because the last site that hosted my blog, Posterous, closed. When they did, I had to transfer ALL the pictures and videos that I had posted there for three (four?) years back to this blog host, Blogger/Blogspot. After spending hours and hours and hours (and hours) working on that, it took a while until I was ready to start again. I think I'm ready now...