A road on paddy fields

A straight road divides the paddy fields.

It's beautiful, the light green grass of rice.

The mountains behind is hazy by probably PM2.5.

Teppou-yuri

Teppou-yuri(Lilium longiflorum).

This plant is native to southern Kyushu.

In Nansatz, you can see the flower, which is planted or wild, everywhere.

Especially, it is often put at the tombstone.

Nioh statue

The Guardian deity of Buddhism, Nioh(仁王).

This stone statue is at the back alley of Kaseda(加世田).

The beauty of fierce carving.

White bigleaf hydrangea

White Bigleaf Hydraneas.

The rainy season has come.

In Japan, this flower is a symbol of the season.

Several colors bloomed in our garden.

A hill with a rock in the shape of turtle

The light of the sun from behind a hill, Kame-ga-oka(亀ヶ丘).

Kame-ga-oka means a hill of turtle.

There is a rock in the shape of turtle on the hill.

Now, the sun is about to go down.

Below of the arch

"Kimpou 2000 years bridge" (金峰2000年橋)

From below of the arch of the bridge,

that is made of laminated lumber, mainly japanese ceder.

It is one of the longest bridges of laminated lumber in Japan.

Loquat fruits

A loquat tree got the fruits.

It is a kind of Maloideae.

In my childhood, I ate many loquats from the tree around my house.

I love it.

A rock oven

 

Today, I got to be thirty one years old.

My family had a dinner at an Italian restaurant "L'ORO DI NAPOLI" in Kagoshima city.

There is a heavy rock oven, imported from Napoli.

Kagoshima city and Napoli are sister cities.

Kabocha squash

I harvested kabocha squashes.

They are pretty sweet and big.

My wife is trying to create a new recipe of the kabocha squash now.

This is so-called "winter squash", but we get it early summer in Nansatz.

A sunset on Mount Noma

A sunset on Mount Noma(野間岳).

From the College of Agriculture in Kagoshima.

I found it when I've participated the instruction course for drives of farm tractor in the college.

Boiled broad beans

Boiled broad beans.

It teaches us early summer has come.

My child, Coto, managed to peel it hardly.

A narrow pathway

A narrow pathway with bush behind our house.

Old, very old pathway.

Maybe it has been over hundreds of years.

My ancestors walked here supposedly.

Cape Noma

Amazing landscape in Kasasa(笠沙).

Beautiful sea blue.

Wind generators on Cape Noma(野間岬).