Photo, photo challenge

Weekly Photo Challenge: The Hue of You

Pink roseUsually, I’m writing here about cross cultural things of France or Europe in Japanese. Basically, prominent colors of France seems to be a kind of earth color like brown, green, gray and so on, especially for common Japanese. However, I think, it comes from a color of building and brilliant red or pink can be a symbolic color of Europe.

Honestly saying, I prefer blue of sky and I believe it shines with bright colors. One of easy ways to see a shinning blue is to visit tropical islands but it is possible to do it in north Europe.

yellow and blues

This challenge was set by the Daily Post.

Photo, photo panoramique

Photo panoramique: an autumn day (2)

 Indian FritillaryThe Indian Fritillary is not an autumn butterfly but it looks good at autumn. In Japanese, it is called “Hyou-mon”, pardine、as you see.

タテハ類は秋の蝶ではないが、秋にはぴったりである。この蝶は(おそらく)ツマグロヒョウモン(褄黒豹紋)であり、実は秋というより豹柄という意味である。

CosmosA name of cosmos seems strange. Why cosmos? Is it related to the universe?

コスモスという名前も奇妙である。どうやらスペインで名づけられたらしいが、宇宙とは関係あるのかないのか?

Cosmos