How have you been?

 I have been too lazy to post new article. However, these flowers in my garden just made me want to upload the photos.

 The Deutzia tree( 空木、　Japanese snow flower) is fully blooming now right at my doorstep. The contrast between the pure white deutzias and orange roses are extremely lovely.

Here is a  picture of  my strawberries. Finally, after 5 years, they are now back in my garden. My strawberries are used to be eaten by slugs but they luckily they are spared this year. I feel very delighted.

 And lastly, my Kenndama.

 I started doing my Kenndama a few months ago for a new challenge. I hope to get the license in the first grade of the senior class in the near future. I practice it every day though, it is quite difficult to master the new technique from what I expected.



Then,   everyone, have  great June !

My Garden in June

Let me show you how my garden looks like now. My favorite roses

 have a lot of  green aphid  now. I have to spray on  this weekend.

This "Deutzia" tree is planted at the northern part of  my garden,

but it has lots of  lovely flowers every June.

I love this tantalizing aroma of "Philadelphus  Satsumi ".

This  is "Rose Campion", which white woolly foliage

and showy crimson are very charming.

"Bellflowers" ＆"Astilbe"

  The Bellflowers grow vigorously as well as the above Rose Campion

My favorite  "kalmia"

The color of bud is bright pink,and flower's color is pale pink.

This flower like a umbrella is pretty cute, I think.

 

I  cooked  saute with above spinaches and sausage and enoki

musharoom, last  sprincled with some pine nuts. I like it a lot.

Recently, my son went on aschool excursion to Kyoto. I heard he had

a lot of fun. This brings  back  old my memories which I visited to 

kyoto as a junior high school student. He had taken nearly 200 photos there.

Here  is a picture of Kinkakuji temple that  he liked it best during  the trip.

Kinkakuji was concerned in the 1390s as aretirement villa for Shogun

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu. It is such a gorgeous and luxurious pavilion,right?

 

This is a Kiyomizu Tempuru where is famous for the magnificence of its

 height and view. I wish I could visit there again when the leaves turn red.

 

 These are souvenirs that was given by my son. It's for me and my husband .

They are the couple Chopsticks witten as" Long life"  and a stuffed

Deer with a rice cracker . We felt very happy upon receiving his presents.