Today it was rainy from early in this morning, but it stopped to rain at around 4:00 PM and we could see a blue sky in the west.
After that my son and I went to Shimoda downtown for shopping.
When we finished shopping we found that the sun was setting into the west mountain and the sky changed the color from blue to yellow.
"OK, Yuuki. Let’s come back home. We will be able to see the beautiful sunset today."…..
We usually pick plums from the plum tree after the middle of June, but the harvesting season is earlier than usual.
So I went to the plum tree to pick I found out this!
Have you ever seen it?
This is a nest of birds, but I don’t know whose nest it is.
I was thinking there was nothing inside, and I put my hand into it.
Then my hand touched something there. ……
Last nigh we had heavy rain here in Shimoda, but it became cloudy at 9:00 AM.
After our guests checked-out, when I was cleaning the guest room I found an amazing scenary through the window of guest room.
The island was floating on the sea of clouds.
That island is called "Izu Oshima".
That is one of islands located in the pacific ocean.
It was very beautiful like a picture.
Today it was sunny too.
The air temperature was going up and up and very hot at last.
This morning I went to Shirahama post office and went a little futher to Ogasaki Wing.
Ogasaki Wing is located at the entrance of Shimoda city on Rout 135, and this is one of good view points in Izu peninsula.
From this points we can look over Shirahama Beach, Suzaki peninsula and Izu seven islands.
I show you the photo of Shirahama beach taken from this point. …….
I sometimes find some kinds of animals around our Pension.
They are squirrel, racoon dog, wild boa and so on.
Today, when I was cleaning our guest room I found something walking on the road in front of our building.
Do you know that?
Yes, it’s a monkey.
They sometimes come to our feild and eat vegetables and fruits because they can’t get the foods in the mountain and may be hungry.
But there is no problem. Because they go into the forest immediatly when they find out us.
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In the moring it was a cloudy but it became sunny in the afternoon today.
I could not go to the beach today because we were very busy, but I think there were some people on the beach.
The weather forcast says that it will be sunny tomorrow and the temperature will be 28 degrees.
Wao! I love the heat and look forward to tomorrow.
The busy Golden Week was finished at last today.
Thank you for staying at Sakuraya during Golden Week.
The weather was very good in the first half of GW, but we had a rain after May 4th.
It was truely regrettable for our guests in that period.
It’s still raining in Shirahama today, but we may have a sun tomorrow.
My family and I have been living in Shimoda for more than 15 years, but Shimoda and Shirahama make us very happy.
Because Izu peninsula has both the mountains and the beautiful sea and we can spend a happy time with them.
Especially, in this season we can see the fresh green leaves on the mountains. So I love this season.
By the way …..
When I went to Shimoda I went to Shimoda park to check the blooming of cherry trees.
This year it has been cold in these days, so Sakura trees started to bloom slowly.
But I was able to see some trees have already bloomed in this park.
There are a lot of cherry trees on the river side in Shimoda downtown, but I don’t know if I can go there soon because we will be busy this week.
As I had to go for shopping I went to the beach after that.
I took this picture at the back of Shirahama shrine in Shirahama Ohama beach.
There is a red gate called "Torii" in Japanese on the rock and we can see Izu Oshima island over there.
Shirahama shrine is located on north side of Shirahama beach, I am showing the another picture taken at the middle of this beach. …..