Carp

Ohkawa River is starting from Kema Rock and run through city center of Osaka.

When I ride on bicycle along Ohkawa, I saw group of people.

A boy operating very bent fishing rod and surrounding men are giving him instructions 　 you should lay down the rod more deep or such.

It looks very big carp.

Finally, person at side catch the carp in to net and pull up on land.

It is big one!

Measuring tool is carried from some where and measured it as 88 cm!

Soon after taking photo, the carp released to Ohkawa again.

Lotus flower

From JR Kusatsu station, there is bus connection to Biwako museum where you can see aquarium of sweet water fishes and historical exhibits around Biwako.

Next of the museum, there is Water plants garden and I could see fully blossomed lotus flowers all over the water surface.

Since the size of lotus flower is big, outside exhibition is only possible to get nice feeling of the flowers.

Ajisai (Hydrangea)

Ajisai is the flower that became very beautiful after rain.

The colors of the flowers get more bright and deep.

I like to see Ajisai in rain.

Pattern in nature

When I get it to nature, I am seeing also the patterns created by nature.

Such as, trace of insect on leafs, spider nets, flower like fireworks, etc.

Often, I became very hot when I got such patterns.

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Hydrangea

Because of the rain of yesterday, the flower, hydrangea in my small garden, got more deep colors.

Hydrangea is become more beautiful with rain.

Small garden became full of hydrangea in this time of the year.

Red rose

Without blossom this red rose, I did not get easy.

Yesterday, the rose got full blossomed and thus took photos under rain but rose stand upright.

Today, I took the same rose but not kept upright anymore due to the rain continued from yesterday.   It is pity that I could not take photo of the rose shine under sun.

However, I got nice photos due to the rain that is the beads of water formed on rose petals。

It seemed that the surface of rose petals have very fine and thin hair which repellant to got in of water molecules. Water is therefore form ball by surface tension but after the ball got some diameter, the ball shall dropdown.

Shaga

Shaga is called Iris Japonica.

It bloomed one week ago.

I took Shaga from mountain side at

Kyoto

.

White Rose is the first Spring rose in my garden.

The size is about 15cm diameter.

Second Ohanami

When highway bas passed out from Ena Tunnel, I could see fully blossomed Cherries are here and there.

Yes, time rugs, after Ohanami finished in

Osaka

area, it took about 20 days to have fully blossom in mountain side.

On West direction, there is Komagtake Mountain still having snow on top.

After arrived at Suwa, I took walk to

Takashima

Castle

where just after fully blossomed and flower petals are flying over full area with window.  The pink colored Shidare sakura is just in time.

When I was childhood, there are no building on top of Tenshukaku (castle tower), and we often climb stone wall base and when I get on the top, I felt it is the entrance to sky.

Torinuke

Torinuke means, walking through cherry trees tunnel along river Ohkawa side in the Mint Bureau in Osaka.

Torinuke in this year is finished by April 18.

There are a lot of Multi layered cherry trees that are quite different from single petal cherry flower i.e, Somei-Yoshino that was ending the season now.

Cherry flower of this year is selected Ohtemari, very luxurious as the photo.

Please see those nice cherry flowers!

                

Karin

Karin

Karin is called “Chinese quince tree.”

Flower of Karin is now full bloomed at my garden.

Last year, we got 3 pieces of fruits and made Karin fruit wine that to be kept over one year or more.

The fruits can not eat as it is.