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Weekly Photo Challenge: Summer Lovin’

7/26, 201410/13, 2014 tanu

Clear blue sky, vivid flowers, hot and humid air, it is the typical summer day in Yokohama. A crape myrtle, I posted a picture of on last Wednesday, is my most favorite summer flower and it tells a really hot days.

My home town was, so to say, a high-way of thunderstorm. Everyday in summer, I heard a sound of thunderbolt and smelled at the storm. Different from my home town, there are few chances of thunderbolts in Yokohama. Instead, I sometimes enjoy vices of cicadas like I did in childhood. Last night, I took some pictures of an eclosion of a cicada.

finding a place of eclosion

a half way to be done

last few minuets

It is always exciting moment to see the wonder of nature.
Also it is always fun to harvest summer vegetables which soak up the summer.

and one of the pleasures of the summer would be coming at evening, end of the hot day.

This is a part of Weekly Photo Challenge by The Daily Post.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Containers

7/20, 201410/13, 2014 tanu

Looking into the small white box in a rainy day, it seemed a container of bright sunny days; dazzling reflection from the sea, colourless fragments of the sea shore and uncertain memories inside the box.

Where shall we go this summer? This slightly pitted old suitcase takes me to an imagination of coming summer vacation. Still rainy.

If you want to open the container of sunny days, I thought, it must be bright, taken with high-key expression.

This is a part of Weekly Photo Challenge by The Daily Post.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Relic

7/12, 201410/13, 2014 tanu

Tutankhamen’s Peas is a well-known story in some junior school in Japan. It says Howard Carter, an English archaeologist and Egyptologist, found peas as one of buried items and succeeded at sprouting these 3000-years-ancient beans. Needless to say, it could be a kind of non-scientific claim even if it is true that some peas were found in the Tutankhamen’s Tomb but we should not stick to a scientific approach. I believe it is important for children to think about ancient life.
Tutankhamen’s Peas must not be a relic because it is still alive, not abandoned, it is surely edible.

Perhaps, we should say a relic for this. This old store was abandoned and only a small billboard says what it was. It says tobacco shop.

This is a part of Weekly Photo Challenge by The Daily Post.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Contrasts

6/28, 201410/13, 2014 tanu

Flowers, going to be seeds, of Japanese maple were swinging in the bright Sun light. At first, the seed is crystal-clear pink. Though autumn colored Japanese maple leaves are well known as a typical scenery of Kyoto or Kamakura, I could say pink seeds in early summer are beautiful.