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.