Cluster Amaryllis alongside the rice paddy & Cosmos etc;

＊Cluster Amaryllis and Rice Reaping (in the paddy)＊

Two days after I took Cluster Amaryllis of previous post, I had luck taking some pictures of good scenes. While making detour after shopping, found them blooming beautifully alongside the rice paddy♪ 

*A sweet family was busy for Rice Reaping*

While driving, we found a family working together with children. I asked the grandmother if it's OK taking pictures, she kindly accepted my request♪

*Another paddy already finished reaping*

＊Cosmos (pink  and yellow)＊

How lucky I was on that day, finding two different colors of Cosmoses (its Chinese Character "秋桜" means "autumn cherry blossom"). And a Swallowtail was flying around busily, I was also busy chasing it almost frantically p:)

Let me add Oriental Green Finch from Feb. this year;

Love the contrast of the eyes, one on the left looks a little sweet without the black spot under the eye -:)  Surprising, how good they are to perch even on the tip of the branch.

We had another electronics problem... ; 4 days ago, our 15 year old 26 inch LCD TV broke.  We looked for new sideboard for our new (34 inch) but my husband decided to remodel not to buy new one. (busy fetching things for him). He is still working on it.  At the same time, gardener came to prone our tiny garden "once a year we ask him).  
So sorry that Haven't been able to visit everyone since I posted previous one.  
         Try HARD form tomorrow;  See You Soon everyone!

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Stage and New Copy Machine etc;

＊Opening performance at Karaoke meeting＊

In the middle of this month, My husband's band group was invited to perform at the Karaoke meeting. They played one popular song. He said that there were some acquaintances among the performers. 

＊New Copy Machine (for A3 size paper) ＊

Our oldest copy machine in the teaching room broke. 
My husband wished to have one for his music scores (A3).　
Our second smaller color copy machine is for only up to A4.

Machine has been set (downstairs)

                     *Teaching room upstairs*   

      *Left; after new one came    * Right; before and there was a big one which broke 

     The smaller color copy machine used to be downstairs is in the teaching room now.

＊Flowers and Bird ＊
Cluster Amaryllis； Japanese name is Equinox Flower '彼岸花'．Season for this flower♪
We consider around this time of year, the celebration of seasonal change typical of an agricultural society.  And also, The etymology of '彼岸・higan' is from "the other shore of the Sanzu River", which separates this life from the afterlife in Japanese Buddhist tradition. On 23rd, we visited grave yards both sides (my husband's and mine).

Heron in the paddy before rice reaping

So sorry for my long absence...; First, copy machine. And now, my 3 year old 8.1pc(windows) was sent to the maker to replace the "liquid crystal panel". Taking backup, I'm using older one.

Wishing to visiting you soon；

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Update about the unknown flower and Butterflies;

     (sorry for the next post's header for link pages, posted earlier）
♧Ki-karasu-uri or Karasu-uri♧
The unidentified flower I posted in the previous post is one of the gourd family.  "Trichosanthes japonica"  in Japanese, "ki-karasu-uri". Made me smile with its Japanese name  as literal translation is "yellow-crow-gourd" (*^.^*)

The picture of gourd above and these pictures below from pc-site taught me a lot.

When I was checking, I got confused with this another look alike gourd's flower. It's called " Japanese snake gourd (Trichosanthes pilosa) " in Japanese, "karasu-uri". 

Left; Ki-karasu-uri                              Right;   Karasu-uri

I haven't seen this gourd but seems like eaten with pickles p:-)

♧Male Ceriagrion nipponicum  and  Sympetrum eroticum♧

We found 2 kinds of small red butterflies in an old small reservoir.  These pictures were taken by my husband (too small for my bad eyes :-)  

The first one is one of Damselfly (糸トンボ) called Ceriagrion nipponicum (ベニ糸トンボ) .   Surprised to know this  is one of Endangered Species from pc-site. Sorry for not clear pictures, bit far away.   Damselflies perch with their wings folded, my husband told me proudly. He looked so happy to see his first rare one. Funny Face p:-)

The second one is called  Sympetrum eroticum（マユタテアカネ）perching on the Iron Scrap in the reservoir.

♧Bull-headed Shrike from late last year♧ ♧

This shrike is called "百舌鳥モズ・hundred tongue bird" in Japanese derived from their varieties of singing sounds.  Pictures I haven't posted.

Wishing you will have a wonderful new week. 

Starting to visit you from this afternoon♡♡♡

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So sorry that my background keep getting shrunken and back; still height isn't normal.

*Meadow Bunting on the Electric Wire*

My husband woke me up hearing this Meadow Bunting singing morning song the other day♪　He  was on the electric wire in front of our house. I rushed out to take pictures p:-)

＊Butterfly in front of the poem of the calendar ＊

These were gifted pictures from the lady member of my husband's band group.  This "C.atrata"  we call 'haguro tonbo 羽黒トンボ, black winged dragonfly' got into her house from the open window and perched on a small laundry pole inside. 

Behind the butterfly, there is a calendar with poem by Mituo Ueda. And she taught me that in his book there are English translations of his works. I couldn't help buying it p:-)

*You are born to be yourself, not to earn points from others.
You come first, points follow you.*

His book I bought and the calendar pic from pc.

*Flowers outside of the front door surviving the hot weather♫♫♫*

Still have a background issue; So sorry that I haven't  visited you.  Have a wonderful weekend and Thank you very much for your sweet comments.

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