A small clothes store

Alongside route 226, there is a small clothes store in Kasasa(笠沙).

In the back, mount Noma(野間岳) can be seen.

I have ever thought it as grocery, but actually not.

The vending machine occupies more than half of the front of this store.

Before the dawn

Before the dawn.

When I take this photo, I was on the ship.

On the way to fixed fishing net, we were waiting for the sunlight,

looking at the moon above Cape Noma(野間岬).

The day before typhoon

According to weather news, a typhoon is going to come tomorrow.

The clouds passed through the mountain very rapidly.

The color of the sky is not ordinary.

A frog on the leaf of avocado

A frog on the leaf of avocado.

Recently, I planted young avocado trees.

No one is trying avocado production except me in Nansatz.

Like a runway

A straight road to the sea.

The road divides the reclamation district by drainage into two section.

It's like a runway for the sky.

Ferns

I like ferns.

They are enigmatic, mysterious, and beautiful morphologically.

In mountains, there are a number of this plant everywhere.

And it often makes me gaze.

Route 226

Route 226.

The road is beside the sea.

You can see spectacular landscape in the driving on the route.

The sea and small islands outside the window of the car.

The stone wall

The stone wall.

Around our house, you might see many stone walls.

I wonder when did it be built.

Probably, it has been since Meiji age.

The sea with shoals

The sea with shoals in Oura(大浦).

It is sand beach as far as you can see.

Beautiful beach without people.

Anytime, without people.

Vivid red

Fishing nets of vivid red.

When I was a walking in Nomaike(野間池), a small fishing port, I found it.

Fishermans can untie the net easily.

It's unbelievable.

Remember of Shugendo

This small hause is a religious facility of Shugendo(修験道).

Shugendo is Japanese folk faith for nature.

In Nansatz, in the past, many people were with Shugendo.

But now, the small house has been forgotten at all.

A ditch in reclamation district

A ditch runs for the sea.

Here is reclamation district by drainage.

Our town, Oura(大浦), was famous for the reclamation project in Showa age(昭和).

A very straight ditch and a horizon of pine trees.

Mt. Isoma

Mt. Isoma(磯間嶽).

It seems also head of the devil.

Strange shape of the mountain.

We see every day the devil, which is not scary, from our garden.

Foreground and the back

From on the hill.

There are some houses in the foreground.

And rice fields, in the back.

Sea and mountains can be seen, in the further back.

Flower of unknown name

Among the road, I found these flowers.

But I don't know the name of the flower, which is maybe wild.

It shines,

in the sunlight of early summer.

Mowing the grass

A farmer is mowing the grass in the paddy field.

He doesn't use herbicides.

Surrounded by the mountains,

rice plants is growing.

Blue

From a viewing platform in Bohnotsu(坊津).

The blue sea and the blue sky.

It's banal words.

But we need no special words for the landscape.

A circle and a cross

The tile roofing in Takeda shrine(竹田神社).

The emblem with a circle and a cross is a symbol of Shimazu family.

They are the governers of Kagoshima for hundreds years before the Meiji Restoration.

On the shrine, Tadayoshi Shimazu(島津忠良) is enshrined.