Critter and 88th night ;

Liking this post to  "Saturday's critters"

*Capibara and hot-spring*

          I've never seen capibara until I visited city park's small animal section.
  My pictures were not so good with cages, but I found it bearable in the freebie frame. 

Here is the video from you-tube that capibaras are enjoying hot-spring. When I spotted them in the park, I remembered the video I've seen on tv. They look SO relaxed taking a bath in the old Japanese type basin. I have a vague memory my mother used wooden basin like this for laundry more than half a century ago :-) 

*Tonight is 88th night, 八十八夜*     　 (posted; Japanese culture page)

I love green tea;

A cup of Shincha (first flush) tea which harvested on the 88th day after Spring Equinox is believed to bring a person a year of good health. Might be as the weather gets mild (no frost) and about time all the plants and vegetation are beginning to spring up. Now there are some tea picking events in Japan.  Haha, my mother used to buy 新茶 Shincha for this day.  A cup of green tea helps me to start a day and inevitable morning drink.

Thank you very much for stopping by 

In Japan we are having 4 consecutive holidays now, have a great weekend;