Remade Signboard etc;

*Remade  Signboard *

My more than 25 years old teaching signboard got really deteriorated. The other day while my husband was trimming our hedge plant (photinia), the white concrete panel accidentally got cracked. He reused the necessary letters and phone number etc; rearranged them on to the new panel.    
The first picture below (for reference) is the only picture of old one. Three years ago, I linked it to Eileen's critters site as I found the dragonfly on the fence.  

'英語教室' means 'English-language classroom' .

Board taken off, only Aluminum Pole

There are slight difference from the original one (♡^.^♡)

  

Birds around the Water Purification Plant and  Expressway;   Skylark and Oriental Green Finch

After half an hour's search, I was almost giving up looking for birdies when we made detour to this area. All of a sudden, my husband said he could hear voices of Skylark. I truly enjoyed their funny, lovely and aggressive faces with hair (or crest? ) on its head ♪

                          *Skylark  and Oriental Green Finch*

While I was chasing skylarks, my husband took pictures of finches hanging on wires of fence really acrobatically. I wished he could have taken wider shots. He was using our old camera, he said he couldn't take wide shots of them.  

A kind of Japanese clover, I First knew; 

               Chirimen-hagi  'ちりめん萩' 

Lady key board player who is in the band group my husband involved showed me this Japanese clover blooming in her garden through sns called line.  Happily she kindly gave us some, knowing I haven't seen them. The animation character behind is "Gigantor",  he made it all by himself p;-)   Chirimen means a kind of Japanese textile fabric.  This is clover's picture link page.

This picture is from the pc page I found;

Wishing you all will have a wonderful coming new week;

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Irises and Critters from City Park;

*Went to see Irises to the City Park *

Now, the rainy season has just started in Japan. Irises are the flowers reminds us rain :-)  I am so grateful for the staffs giving us chance to be able to enjoy these many gorgeous varieties of them♪

Kindly, there are names for each iris, let me show you some.
Hope you can enjoy the beautifully written Calligraphy as well. 

*I had a big luck that I could take pictures of butterflies with Iris*

The red colored butterflies are generally called "red butterfly"  In Japanese, we call "akatonbo, 赤とんぼ".    Although the Iris with that name doesn't have red color, happy that I could take pictures of both of them.  I learned that butterflies perch on tip of things from my husband when I started writing blog p:-)

Common skimmer resting tip of the name board of the flower and on the bud.

*And I'll add the night scene with "Light Up" by using a mask*

*Flying Kite and Dark colored Dukes* 

Picture of the Kite was not well taken.

But happy that I could at least have a Flying Kite picture♪

I found these ducks in March.  I have some stocks of ducks' pictures I haven't posted.  They've already gone to the north.  Looking forward to posting later. 

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Encounter (Union) of wood and ink etc;

Another Exhibition I've seen which features the "Collaboration of Wood and Ink".  Literal translation from the Japanese might be "Meeting of wood and ink".  I wasn't sure which word will be appropriate, "encounter. union. collaboration. meeting" (^^;)

The left side work means "After night comes the day"

*I thought the color of swallow I found recently matches with ink:-) *

*Scenes around the Rice Paddy * 

These are the pictures I took around the rice paddy few days ago.  These Domestic Ducks help farmers with eating weeds in the rice paddy.  This "Rice-Duck Farming. 合鴨農法" can be called "Earth-Friendly".

Gray Starling and fluffy white flower I found around the paddy.

My first finding of Skylark and flowers.

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Wishing you a wonderful new week; I'll start visiting you from tomorrow. 

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Sumiyoshi-Festival and rice paddy etc;

*Performed  at the Eve of Festival *

My husband's band group was invited to the next city's festival held at Sumiyoshi-Shrine "住吉神社" and performed in the early evening at the eve of Festival (27th).　

Let me introduce some Yosakoi performance and Mikoshi we could see this year with Videos and pictures.    "yosakoi" ←link  is a unique style of dance and the term came from Japanese archaic term '夜さり来い. yosarikoi' 

                         

At the Shrine, many little bamboo lanterns were decorated alongside the stairs and path. There were papers inside the lanterns; DREAMS in the future were written by school children on them. I'll include some night scenes as well. 

From the left  *wish to have a cake-shop; *wish to be a nurse;*wish to be a model;

Next Day on 28th (main ceremonial festival), we enjoyed several "Mikoshi" ←link  considered as 'portable shinto shrine' parade. (hope you can enjoy with very short videos)

*Bubulcus  Ibis and  Lesser Emperor  at Rice Pddy, etc*

Bubulcus Ibis 'アマサギ' etc I found at the rice paddy on 24th. They seem to be having fun with tractor♪ And Lesser Emperor'ギンヤンマ' my husband found for me.

* Unidentified Red Flower * 

For the last, I found this bright red flower on a fence of a house the other day.  Made me feel happy finding my first flower (♡^.^♡) 

After came back from the main festival yesterday, my husband expected me to post this topic soon.  Wish you will have a WONDERFUL new week. 

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