Searching For the Cool 找涼爽去水邊

The weather is still a bit too hot.  The temperature went up to 34℃ or 93°F today, the humidity was 70%. It's so muggy.

I rode a bicycle and came to this waterside. While I was in a residential area, I felt the wind was been sending from the hair dryer.  Riding the bicycle along the water, the sensible temperature went down suddenly. I enjoyed the cool here!

Sunflower Field

The sunflowers are at their best now. A volunteer group grows them every year. In 2020, the first year of COVID-19 pandemic in this country, they discontinued growing the flowers to protect visitors from the infection.

 Since the last year, the group has put boards requiring visitors to wear a mask and keep distance. They have not built an observation deck either to avoid concentration of visitors.

The yellow in this year is same as that of before the pandemic and before the war. Times have changed.

年年歲歲花相似

A high school counselor shows two categories.

What you can change:

yourself, thinking, action and future

What you cannot change:

others, emotion and things that happened in the past 

Have a nice weekend!

 

Shoebill Key Ring 鞋嘴鸛鑰匙鏈

 This bird is very interesting. It stands still without any motion for hours beside the stream to catch a fish. After coming to a zoo, it doesn't worry about food and moves freely.

Terrible heat waves are attacking many countries now. Be careful not to suffer from heat stroke and dehydration. 

在三伏中，注意中暑和脫水。

Persimmon Fruits Are Growing

 Yesterday the temperature was 38.2 ℃ or 100.8F. It's too hot!!

This is out of focus not because of the amazing heat. lol 

昨天氣溫38.2度。我從未經歷的炎熱。

An Endangered Species 瀕危植物 澤珍珠菜

Lysimachia candida is very rare in Japan.

The situation in Taiwan is same as in Japan. Two years ago, this plant was discovered again for the first time in 122 years.

I felt this one has some beauty of geometry.
 

Modern Japanese Style Architecture

A wealthy merchant built this house 100 years ago. He handled fertilizers.

Azalea flowers are beautiful. 

映山紅盛開。

The wall of the storehouse was plastered.
 

Doores are very thick and designed carefully not to have fire slip into. There is a big maple tree in front.

I enjoyed a cool breeze under it.

Little Carps In the Breeze 鯉魚旗（鯉幟）

This river runs through the middle of city. Every May a non profit organization (NPO) of tourism puts up ropes over the river and ties the carp flags.

Carp flags have a history of 200 years. The first carps were all black and big. On May 5th people erected a long bamboo fixing a black one and wished their boys healthy growth like it. Later people decorated red and blue ones as a mother and boy. The black was deemed a father.

You can find many colors such as orange, green and purple. 5th of May was the day for boys and now this day is the children's day  including girls.

I deeply admire the man who got a creative idea to make carp flags and let them swim in the air.
我佩服人把水中和空中看成同一，就做鯉魚旗讓它游泳在一陣爽快的風中。

Flowers In May 五月的野生植物

Rosa rugosa is a kind of rose growing in eastern Asia. You will find them near the beach in northern Japan. 

野生玫瑰

This one is the original. There are many improved breeds in Europe.

The red azalea flowers (Rhododendron molle) are at their best now.  Though the flowers are beautiful, its tree is very poisonous. Cows and horses in a grazing land do not eat them. 　野生杜鵑

This is Kerria jponica. You will see them in a Japanese garden. 棣棠花