raindrops

I was annoyed by the capricious weather yesterday, but pleased with the beautiful sunshine after the rain.

Raindrops on rhodohypoxis.

Two additional photos of Mt. Fuji

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Carnations

As if to tell me Mother's Day is just around the corner,

carnations are beginning to bloom in my garden.

Happy Mother's Day!

Trip to Nagasaki

I made a short trip to Shimabara and Nagasaki with my mother. The flight was quite smooth.

This is a snapshot of Mt.Fuji from the plane.

Before the trip, mom was quite concerned about the weather, as she has a strangely biased idea that Nagasaki is a rainy region as is sung in a Japanese Enka ballad, “In Nagasaki, it was raining again today.” On top of that, my niece who is a self-proclaimed rain-bringer joined us to travel with, that had multiplied mom’s worry. It was cloudy and it rained during the nights, but I couldn’t complain about it. We enjoyed the trip anyway.

Please look at some of the photos from the trip.