Rainy days will begin before long .

 

I work at a day care center fot children,and  we had some 30 new students 

 and two new  young workers in this month of April.
I had to memorize their names and know their characters and  created a work

 manual in order to have the two new workers to figure out  our works　

as soon as possible.

 In addition to that, I have been planning a trip to  Hokkaido area for the past

few weeks : My mother asked me to make an intinerary for our trip to Hokkaido.
That's why I was not able to update my blog for nearly two months or more.

While I was tight with the business tasks and routine duties, Spring is going to

finish so soon and rainy days will begin before long in Japan. Now, everything is

settled in good condition,

 

Azelea

 

 

Since I was very busy, I wasn't able to check on my garden.  My favorite

flowers in my garden bloomed one after the other for 2 months - first the

 Grape hyacinth , then the Spirea, then the light orange Azeleas, then the J

apanese Snowflowers, then the Clematis then the Roses and so on.

 

 

 

 

grape hyacunth

 

 

 

 

the spirea

 

Clematis

   Japanese Snowflowers

 

 

 

 

 

I am trying to grow melons, which seeds were given by a kindhearted women.

She is one of my blog readers. The melons are in my garden now.
Now their little true leaves have just sprouted - It's my first time to grow it

in my garden.
Growing them is one of my excitement for this year as far as my gardening

is concerned. If I could grow them well and have delicious melons, I would

like to give their sisters to someoneー perhaps to gardening lovers- like her.

 

 

  Besides melons , lettuces , red raddishes ,edible chrysanthemus, gumbos are

 growing day by day.
Japanese gingers also are streching up.

 

 

 

This picture of cherryblossoms was taken on the way to The Cupnoodle

-Museum in Yokohama-my hometown.
I was very lucky to be able to see beautiful cherryblossoms unexpectedly.

 

 

Tomorrow is Saturday but I have to go to work early.
Though I love to sit up late at night, I could not do it tonight. That is too bad.

 

Everybody, 　have a lovely weekend.

Astoronomical Show !

What happened to the sun on May 21th? In Japan, We  enjoyed

the rare Ring of Fire , annular solar eclipse , over wide areas along

the Pacific ocean. It is said that it was the first time in 932 years.

This is a picture that  the eclipse  just started, I had taken it without

glasses (I didn't look it in my eyes to keep  my eye in a good condition.)

The picture shows the sun at 7:24am.I tried to take some photes

with special glasses for eclipse on the lens .That did well.

this is the glasses.

I'm not sure why background in this picture had gotten  BLUE .

But it  was good chance for me.

At 7:32 am  YES!!! The long -awaited moment has come.Isn't it 
a spectacular?  What a beautiful ring of fire.

 

8:22am.  Oops! The cloud was almost obscuring the sun.

However, we were fully satisfied with the universal mystery.

 

Here are some pictures of the water paddy field which is located in

the eastern of my house. The moment rice field is coverd with water,

A cupple of  ducks come from nowhere every May.

I like a tranquil scenery very much.

Queen Elizabeth Roses just started blooming in my garden.

I tried to arrange them with the graceful orange roses (I'm not sure the name of the rose) in a cool glass's vase. Brilliant roses  are beautiful alone,aren't they?

Have a nice week!