grasshoppers

It's 8:00 p.m. now. Although during the day time is really hot here in Fukushima, luckily enough, we have cool air in the mornings and evenings almost every day.

Now I can hear grasshoppers are chirping outside. These sounds make me cooler, and feel Autumn is approaching. I am not sure they are grasshoppers or there is another name you can call it, but in Japanese, we call them "キリギリス科 ウマオイ". They sing like "すいーっちょん".

blueberry-picking

I wrote this writing about two weeks ago, on July 30th, and applied it to The Linguist writing assignment. Here is after the correction by my tutor.

My mom, my husband and I went to a blueberry farm this morning. The farm opens at 6:00AM every day, from early July until the middle of August. When we arrived there at 7:10AM, after a 30 minute drive, we heard cheerful voices here and there from blueberry bushes. While you are there, you can eat blueberries as much as you like, with no time limit. If you bring berries back home, they charge you 1100 yen per kilogram. Three of us picked 2.3 kg of berries in total, and paid 2500 yen, and probably we ate about the same amount while we were there.

robust cicadas

The rainy season was finally over the end of the last week, or early in this week here in Fukushima.
It's getting really hot last couple of days. Today, we probably had over 35 celcius degrees. I can here robust cicadas (Oncotympana maculaticollis) are chirping, and those sounds make me feel so hot.

sounds of evening cicadas

It's 6:40pm now. I have listing beautiful chirping of evening cicadas from the backyard. I love these sounds very much.

in the middle of June gloom

It's been awhile since the last time I posted here.
Meanwhile, the rainy season has began here in Fukushima, and we've been having muggy days past a couple of weeks.

Instead of gloomy weather however, I can see very beautiful blue sky outside this morning. I took a picture from the window in my room. Birds are singing; most of them are long-tailed cocks, starling, and sparrows. Air is crispy clear and cool. What a wonderful day!

I woke up before 4 am!! lol (I went to bed early last night, because of migraine.) It's already at dawn, so I could read a book, 'Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban' until 5 am, and I got up 6 after one extra hour sleep.

I love early summer, and summer morning especially. After 7 or so every morning, commuting hour starts. Because of our house locates by the road, it's getting noisy, which is annoying. So the best time I can enjoy the beautiful morning, is about 5 am to 7.

beading... one of my hobbies

To Leena,
Here're some of my bead works. A neckless and a pair of earrings.

'Beading' is making accessories using beads. 'Bead' refers to one of a set of small, usually round, pieces of glass, wood, plastic etc., that you can put on a string and wear as jewelry.


Since last March, I haven't made any beading stuff.
Hm, I still have three more days off (yay!), maybe I'll make something until next Monday.

Wonderful springtime

We took this picture last week, on Apr 22th.

Though, we still enjoy seeing cherry blossoms here and there.


So lovely and gorgeous color of trees. We took this picture on the way to Miharu-machi on May 1st.


My husband took this picture just yesterday, when he came back from skiing at Deco ski resort.

Skiing in Yamagata

Today is May 5th, it's the middle (or almost the end??) of my 9 days holiday from Apr 29th. During this holiday, I went skiing twice at Mt.Tengendai in Yamagata prefecture. Yamagata is the upper left next to Fukushima where I live on a map.
Here's a picture we took on Apr 29th.


There's still plenty of snow on the mountain. This is another pic on May 3rd.

Mt.Adatara and cherry blossoms

It's been a while since I posted a last contribution (I don't know this word is correct or not in this case). I haven't written anything for a quite long time here. It's been almost five month, actually. Um, time really flies.

Here in Fukushima, Japan we are having a wonderful Spring time. You can enjoy beautiful cherry blossoms here and there.
This is a picture I took last week. Mt.Adatara with full blooming cherry trees.