This morning I went to the beach for a walk after long time.
It was sunny here in Shimoda but we had a very strong wind in Shirahama.
I was going to walk heading to Shimoda downtown, but I changed my mind due to the strong wind.
I took this picture behind Shirahama shrine.
This afternoon my wife said,
"Look at this. This sakura is blooming!"
There are some Sakura trees in our field, and this is "Kawazu Sakura".
This tree blooms from the beginning of February, but it has some blossoms.
It's too early, see you again in next February!
As it was very warm today I went to the beach for snorkeling.
There are not so many good points in Shirahama, but Itado area is one of good points in Shimoda.
The water was a little cold, but it was very clear and I could see a lot of fishes there.
Today my wife and I went to the Shirahama primary school.
We had a class observation of my son's class.
When we got to the school they were learning the living things of this season.
This week they are going to go outisede to explor and find out the plants and the bugs.
My camera is not good at taking night sky, so I could not take it…..
Last night my wife said outstide at around 12:30 AM,
"Look at that! there are a lot of stars!"
I went out and look up the sky. There were a lot of stars twinkling.
When we were looking we found out a shooting star.
I didn't know, but in these days we have had a meteor stream "Orionids", so we could see one of them.
From this season the air is very clear and we can see a lot of stars in the night sky here in Shimoda.
Recently most of Japanese people eat white polished rice.
10 days ago my father in low sent us the unpolished rice cooking set.
This set has a bag of unpolished rice and a pressure cooker, so we tried cooking unpolished rice with adzuki beans.
It was not only really nice and delicious, but also chewy texture and tastes sweeter than white rice.
Of course it has a nutrition.
Since last Tuesday we have had strong north wind here in Shirahama.
From this season we sometimes have strong wind.
That's why we have already set the fences on the beach on last Sunday, and the sand on the beach are protected from the wind by these fences.
It was very good timing.
Yesterday it was sunny and very hot here in Shimoda, but I could not go to the beach to swim.
So I went to the sea for snorkeling today.
It takes about 15 minutes by car from Sakuraya to Kujuppama Beach.
This beach is very small but the water was really clear and I could take pictures of fishes.
In this season we set up the fences on the beach.
Because we have strong north east wind between autumn and spring, and because we have to protect the sand on the beach from this wind.
Today we had a work to set up the fences from 7:00 AM.
In this early morning we had a heavy rain and stopped raining before work, but it began to rain again after we started to work.
However we finished to do it in the rain……
It was rainy here in Shimoda today.
When the rain was stopped around noon I went out to take pictures.
I found out the water drops on the Aloe near Sakuraya.
This aloe became fresh after the rain.