narcissus
The 29th person I lent ＄25 is a woman named Genesis Dayana in Ecuador.
She is a veterinarian and her husband is also a veterinarian and sells pesticides, fertilizers, pesticides, and bird and pig feed.
This time she applied for a $350 loan to Kiva to buy vaccines, medicines, fertilizers and pesticides.
Her repayment period is 8 months.
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Wintersweet
This time, words of a bulletin board is
"Don't work too much, don't bring to naught, don't be lazy.
Walk step by step with dignity"
“Fuku” that became one of my daughter's family became 2 years old at the end of last year.
She is about 23 years old in human terms.
She was a homeles cat, but she became a nice house one.
She may not be able to live in the wild anymore.
She is very spoiled, lonely and scared.
When I go to her house to meet her, she comes up to me and says, "Groom me ! Let's play with me !"
Please live long and heal us ! 
flowering kale
This time, words of a bulletin board is
"calm or gentle"
New year is coming soon, and I'm thinking deeply about these words.
I hope you will have a "calm" year both in public and private.
Thoroughwort
This time, words of a bulletin board is
” Form-it is, in fact,emptiness.
Every day is new and fresh. "
red spider lily
The 28th person is a woman named Alice who is living in Liberia with her husband and four children.
She is 28 years old.
she sells cooked food and needs $375 to buy ingredients for her food preparation.
And she applied for a loan to Kiva.
The repayment period is 7 months.
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Bottle gourd
A field with a mixture of watermelon, cucumber, bottle gourd and sweet potato vines
These are Bottle gourds that my husband harvested the other day.
I remembered that my mother-in-law used to make dried gourd.
So I challenged myself to make dried gourd.
But I gave up it at the first stage.
I didn't know that the peel of the bottle gourd was so hard.
I couldn't cut it at all. 
So my husband put a knife on the gourd and hit it with a hammer, and we managed to cut it off.
I couldn't handle it at all.
At last, we disposed them into the compost.
By the way, I planted three seedlings of watermelon.
But we harvested watermelon, cucumber and bottle gourd.
pomegranate
This time, words of a bulletin board is
"If you pray, the flowers will open"
These are the words by Shinmin Sakamura.
He is said to be a healing Buddhist poet.
balloon flower
lotus
sun flower
sun flower
okra
Long time no see.
My brain is dormant because of the sudden heat of this summer.
In additon, various changes and incidents occurring in the world and Japan make me confusing.
No matter what happens in the human world, the natural world is calm and the flowers are as usual.
So I uploaded some photoes I took recently.
Chilean Iris
This time, words of a bulletin board is
”Life is
never again"
Please take good care of yourself.
My husband attended a funeral service yesterday.
He was given a leaflet and I took some pictures of it.
"A funeral ceremony is not only for farewell but the place for praying for the persons happiness after death."
"The sutra is not only for the Buddhist knowledge and a manual of a life-style and how to die but for the pray for a person who passed away.
Buddhist scriptures will be a guideline of a right life-style for the person who lives, and and makes people who passed away relieved and happy.
By praying a sutra, we can tell Budda's concern and prayer."
I attend a sutra transcription meeting once a month and raise some sutras there.
I always think about the meaning of them.
But reading this leaflet, I was relieved a little.
Thursday, April 7.
I went to a temple called Kokusyouji to see Camellia in the afternoon.
Fallen flowers were like a red carpet.
The tree is about 300 years old and is designated as a natural monument.
It is the midst of spring and cherry blossoms are in full bloom.
Petals of a cherry blossoms were dancing like snow. 
This time, words of a bulletin board is
”Thanks”
Thankfully, I can see beautiful cherry blossoms this year too.
