Election

Traditional Japanese handballs made by my aunt-in-law.



Next Sunday is an election day.

I can hear the sound of an election campaign.
This will last untill this Saturday evening.

We must elect three person.
First a prefectural governor, next a mayor of our town and last a member of a town assembly.

Our previous mayor retired because of the union problem, and he came forward again to ask the townspeople if his insistence is right or wrong.

And one of the town assembly retired to come forward as a candidate for a mayor, so there is an election to fill vacancy.

I think an election of our mayor has the union probrem , so it will become dead heat.

Sour persimmon

I picked sour persimmons from the tree.



They are too astringent to eat, so I am making dried ones.
After drying, they taste very sweet.

Vegetable field

My mother-in -law grow these vegetables in her vegetable field now.

The picture above is the leaves of 'taro'.


This is 'green pepper'.



These are the leaves of carrot.
While young, the leaves are also good to eat.

Proverb 8

Handsome is that handsome does.

This proverb means that it is important to have warm

The appearnce isn't so important for the common people.

If she or he is content with his life and is feeling happy, they look charming, I think.

Orange flowers: cosmos?

A house and a shrine

This house and a shrine is famous though they seem to be nothing special.

The house is the place where one of the Japanese famous mystery writers, Yokomizo Seishi lived for three years after the World War second.
He was evacuated to the house and wrote his masterpieces there.


And this small shrine is famous for the name used in the mystery as Koichya no Baasan.

Dogwood

There are two dogwoods; 'ha-na-mi-zu-ki' in japanese in my yard.

This tree is the one whose flowers are red.
Every year, leaves turn red about this time of the year.
But this year they fell to the ground before becoming red.
These red things are the seeds.

Anothr tree whose flowers are white has leaves now.
But they haven't turned red yet.

The feeling of 'Fall'

Under the persimmon tree, the ground is covered with fallen leaves.

Among them was a little yellow flower.

Oxalis

Walking with the dog, I saw these 'oxalis.'

They grow in a colony and the pink color reminds me of spring.

Pomegranate

These pomegranates ripened .

The seeds are shining like rubies.

The taste is sweet and sour.

Turmeric

These green leaves are 'turmeric';'u-ko-n' in Japanese.

It's like a ginger plant and we can have rhizomes of the plant.
I hear about this plant a lot these days .
It is said to be good for our health.

I could see them at the field near my house.
Someone is growing them every year.

Perilla

　There are two kinds of 'perilla or beefsteak plant'; red ones and green ones.
Green ones are called 'o-o-ba' in Japanese.

Red one is used for 'shiso-juice' and 'picklied ume';'u-me-bo-shi' in Japanese.
The red color is beautiful in 'u-me-bo-shi.'
Green ones are served with 'sashimi' or put into sauce after cutting into pieces and so on.

Now they are producing seeds which we can cook, for exmaple 'te-m-pu-ra'.
It's delicious.

Lantana

The other day, I was presented this flower by the woman who lives next door to my house.
She likes flowers very much and grows many kinds of flowers.

The name of this flower is 'lantana', 'si-chi-he-n-ge or ko-u-o-u-ka' in japanese because the color of the flower chaneges little by little.

First it is yellow or orange and gradually it turns to red or violet.

Along the Takahashi river

Yesterday afternoon I drove to Kurashiki with my husband.

These are the pictures I took from inside the running car.


Along the Takahashi river.


On the bridge.

Harvest

After drying 'unhulled rice or paddy' with a drying machine, we put them
into these bags.


These are unhulled rice or paddies.

Pink sky

On the evening of Actober 12, the cloud became pink for only a short while.

The color of the sky were changing every moment and this pink color faded away in a second.

I could manage to take this picture.