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Around two years have been passed after returning back from Brittany where there was full of nature. I love both Yokohama and Brittany and I don’t want to say my preference but obviously there is a big gap between two places. My place is/was at a part of urban area and as you can easily imagine, a lot of buidings are/were still under construction. It should be unavoidable things. A big difference is that you can see big farms or forest next to the urban area still in Britanny but not in Yokohama. It would be likely to disappear even a small farm.

Yokohama is a historical town known as a place of re-opening a door of the country of Japan to other countries in 1858. There was no downtown 170 years ago. It is said that was the reason to use the place of Yokohama. Now, there seems no free spaces. around 3 milllion people live there. It should be too huge number.

Lens-Artists Challenge #317: Walking the Neighborhood

It was the end of a hot day, someone use a blue hose to water and put it under a tap. No one was interested in such a thing and it should be out of focus. It was left in the backyard next to a rusty metal container. Who cares? I’m not even interested in it either. That’s why I took it out of focus, to keep only those colors.

誰も興味もない錆びたコンテナ横の適当に置かれた青いホース。ただ、その色を残すために撮った写真。

Lens-Artists Challenge #315: common object

Now, it’s not a good time to visit any gardens in Japan. The temperature is extreme and exceptionally high for one month compared to common years. The weather forecasting company says it is indeed 4-5 degrees Celsius (7-9 degrees Fahrenheit) higher. When I visited the garden shown in the photo above, it was 38 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit). I could say it is crazy. I gave up on staying there just to take photos. The next photo was taken at the Japanese Pear Orchard next to the garden. I returned to my car right after taking this photo for the record.

I would like to show a bottom picture taken last summer. A picture itself looks not so beautiful. You would see one butterfly and quiet flowers. I prefer to those type of garden. It was rather natural and wild. The flowers were indigo, which is completely different from the color we know. In fact, indigo is made from leaves. And the important thing is that the temperature was below 25 degrees.

Lens-Artists Challenge #311: What’s in a Garden?

There are no new photos in this challenge. All the photos were taken in France, where I used to live.

In the beginning of period I lived there, I didn’t see any squirrels around my place. Some of my co-workers told me that there were plenty of squirrels just next to me even when I was at urban area. It was a challenging and strange message to me. I didn’t see any of them at all. Perhaps, I didn’t have good eyes?

A year later, I was walking in the woods, and suddenly a squirrel appeared in front of me. It was not the acorn season, so it must have been busy collecting food. After this sudden encounter, I started seeing squirrels almost every day. There were a lot of squirrels in the immediate vicinity.

Lens-Artists Challenge #306: Habitat

Then, I knew that it was the day when I became a part of that town. I got my own habitat.