昨日「37度」表示の気温計のことを書きましたが、どうも今年の夏は北海道を本州並みにしてしまっているようであります。こういう気温の中で、朝の散歩だけは歩いていて毎日8000歩以上。
体重がこの５月くらいからの３ヶ月ほどでみるみる減少してきているのは、休みなく続けている散歩による運動の負荷とカミさんが工夫してくれている野菜中心のダイエット食のおかげなのですが、さすがにこの高温下ではちょっとやる気が削がれてくるように思える。
なんですが、外を歩いていると北海道はいま百花繚乱。道端で名前も知らないたくさんの花々が目を楽しませてくれています。
最後の「花」は花弁が落ちたあとの「オオウバユリ」の様子。次世代のための種子を生み出していくプロセスのようなのですが、花とはまた違った美感があって、目を楽しませてくれる。それぞれの個体ごとにこのタネの数は違うようです。散歩道で確認できるオオウバユリはほぼこのようなプロセスにある。
人間の方は高温でバテ気味だけれど、普段はあんまり見かけないような草花たちが盛大に咲き誇っている様子からは、エールを送られてきているように思える。っていうか、暑さのせいで根を詰めて歩くのがキツくて目がついあちこちと遊んでしまうからなのでしょうか。
さて、今週は東京出張を後半に控えて、処理しなければならないこともあるので、頑張ります。また、本当はたくさんの「住宅取材」ストックがあるのですが、このブログで書くのにいろいろな制約があって、なかなか取材内容を発表できていません。自分の本来は、やはり「住宅と人間」ということと思っているので、制約をすこしづつ解きほぐして本来のテーマで書いていきたいです。
明日以降、復元していきたいと思います。どうぞよろしく。
English version⬇
Hokkaido continues to be hot. Flowers that soothe the battered body.
Under high temperatures close to my body temperature, I have to be careful with exercise. I'm doing well on my planned diet, but I'm taking it easy with walking and other activities. .......
Yesterday I wrote about the thermometer displaying “37 degrees Celsius,” but it seems that this summer has made Hokkaido as hot as Honshu (mainland Japan). Despite these temperatures, I have been taking my morning walk, which is more than 8,000 steps every day.
My weight has been decreasing rapidly over the past three months since May, thanks to the exercise load from my continuous walks and the vegetable-based diet that my wife has devised for me, but the high temperatures seem to have dampened my motivation.
However, when I walk outside, I find that Hokkaido is now filled with many flowers and blossoms. Many flowers, whose names I don't even know, are pleasing to my eyes on the roadside.
The last “flower” is a scene of “Ouba lily” after the petals have fallen off. It seems to be a process of producing seeds for the next generation, but there is a different sense of beauty from the flowers that is pleasing to the eye. Each individual seems to have a different number of these seeds. The Oubayuri that can be seen on the walkway are almost always in this process.
Although humans are feeling a bit battered by the high temperatures, it seems as if we are being cheered on by the sight of flowers and plants that we do not usually see blooming profusely. Or perhaps it is because the heat makes it hard for me to root around and walk, and my eyes end up playing here and there.
Well, I will do my best this week, as I have some things to process before my business trip to Tokyo later this week. Also, I really have a lot of “housing coverage” stock, but due to various restrictions on writing on this blog, I have not been able to publish my coverage. I would like to write on my original theme by unraveling the restrictions little by little, because I believe that my original theme is “housing and human beings.
I will try to restore it from tomorrow onward. Thank you very much.