Picnic at the beach

Eno-shima behind the sea weed hung

Having a beach picnic while viewing the Eno-shima, behind the seaweed hung.

It has been cloudy lately, but the sun was strong at the beach side.

We enjoyed having a wine and drawing a likeness each other in the sun at the beach.

Making special time without spending money.
Relaxing Saturday.

There is the sea, there is the mountain and there are good friends. 

no need anything else.

Plum blossoms on a snowy day

It's been snowing on and off in this Shonan area.
It's like being in the north of Japan, a little nippy out.

In my grandma's garden,
A Japanese plum flowers were prettily and gently blooming,
in this snowy chilly weather
with dripping beautiful snow tears...

The plum trees look beautiful in this snowy weather.
They are showing pretty flowers on its hardy thick branches.

Spring might be coming with the melting of the snow...

roof loaded with snow

This morning, I looked down the view of a snow-covered my little town Hayama.
Snow still keep falling silently...
Beautiful.

White snowy Zushi beach

Setsubun

February 3rd is Setsubun. 
Setsubun (February 3 or 4) is the day before the beginning of spring according to the lunisolar calendar. On the evening of this day, people open the doors of their houses and drive the demons (i.e. bad luck) out of their homes and gardens by throwing handfuls of beans and shouting "Demons out! Good luck in !!" 
And one more thing we do on Setsubun is eating Spring Sushi roll.

So my share mate Satoko and Nalini-san made Spring sushi-roll.
It was first experience making sushi roll for Nalini-san, although it was well-made !!

And after eating sushi-roll, of course we threw the special beans toward Demons, but Demons do not exist.......... anymore (!?)
So, Satoko drew the Demons, but they were too cute.
I didn't want to throw them out ：）
but we did and shouted
“Demons out!! Good luck in !!”
「鬼は外！福は内！Oni ha soto ! Fuku ha uchi !!」
Hopefully, in 2011 Good luck will come to my house.

Beautiful color gradations

Mother nature makes beautiful Color Gradations.

From dawn to dusk,

It shows us many different colors.

And the way it shows us is also changed

from wind blowing and clouds.

It's one of the body movement of the Earth.

And It could be one of the mind movement of the Earth.