Early Summer - Blog Posts

The season moves at a quick pace.

Spring flowers are turning into early summer flowers, the leaves become deeper green, and the sunlight is getting stronger.

Now, hydrangea is blooming beautifully everywhere. And there is a lovely hydrangea in my palm as well💜(This is a tiny cupcake😉🎶🧁)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lKbb_GPlyio

早朝の海へ。

ハグはまるで天職であるかのように、ひたすら貝殻拾いに勤しんでおりましたU(° ꈊ °)U✧ｷﾗｰﾝ!!

One early morning, I went to the sea with Hug.

She finds her ideal job in picking seashells🤣🤣🤣✨🐶🐚✨

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Erhzyzyr4fI

Ode to our Green Road #8

Green grass swaying

I feel like you can hear your voice

If the sky is fine

I want you to come to see you

Give a flower of love to you

Love without words

Even if the sky is not clear

I pray for love in my heart

The rain falling on you

Until it turns into wind,

calls for dreams,

and turns into light

Tears are new flower seeds for tomorrow

A circle that leads to tomorrow

-words from Aimyon “Ai no Hana”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JuyQQUqD64c

The door into summer

This year also, one corner of our Green Road was covered with small sunflower-like wildflowers, and the door into summer was opened at once.

Hug jumps into there trying to catch the new season earlier than anyone else🌻🌻🌻🚪🐕✨✨

Looking up at the sky, the south wind is carrying the clouds with white tails slowly and slowly…☁️💙💛

今年も野原の一角がちいさな向日葵のようなジャノメソウに覆われると、それを合図にグリーン・ロードでは夏への扉が一気に開け放たれます。

ハグは誰よりも早く新しい季節を捕まえようとして、そのなかへ迷いなく飛び込んでゆきます。

空を仰げば、白く長い尾をたなびかせた雲を南風がゆっくりゆっくり運んでゆくのでした。

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1-GGGiKwjOU

Shinin' You, Shinin' Day

Early summer morning… As the days go by, the temperature is getting higher and higher.

In that situation, Hug runs around in the weed bush with a lot of morning dew, soaking her body wet plenty.

It seems to be the easiest, most primitive and most jolly way to get cool ;-)♡

朝から蒸し暑い日が増えてくると、ハグは朝露をたっぷりと湛えた背の高い草むらの中を駆け回って、自分の身体をズブ濡れにしたがります。

そうすることでクールダウンできるようなのですが、どうも愉しすぎるらしくって、ときどき眼がイッちゃってるぅぅww くれぐれも野犬ではありませんwww

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWcmeMm5Rp8

One early summer day, we were just chilling out. With delicious dishes!! 🍽 💕😚🐶🐶💕

のんびりすごす、初夏の休日。

涼しげな音楽が流れるビストロのテラス席やマルシェのテイクアウトでおいしい料理を戴いたりなんかして、イヌたちもシアワセ顔なのです U´ᴥ`U U´ᴥ`U

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6RhbS83rws

Let’s chase all the YELLOW magic

On our Green Road, the coreopsises bloom all at once and the fields were dyed yellow💛💛💛💛

Dogs swim in the “Yellow Sea” and play around to their heart's content.

Eventually, we are short of breath, look up at the sky, say “Goodbye” to the spring, and say “Hello” to the brand new summer ;-)

僕たちのグリーン・ロードでは

毎年この時期にジャノメソウが一気に開花し

辺りいちめん真っ黄色に染まります

イヌたちはその花の海に身をうずめ

泳ぐように　踊るように

顔や身体に花粉をいっぱいくっつけて

思う存分はしゃぎまわります

そして僕たちは

息を弾ませながら空を見上げて

春の暮れと　夏の訪れを知るのです

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FLBLB36CfMk

HAPPY LIKE A HONEYBEE

goodbye, other classmates

goodbye, the maths teacher

we go up on the hill

through the holes of fences

beyond the floating bridges

god only knows where we go

walkin' on the rail, drinkin' ginger ale

like an adventure tale send by air-mail

yesterday's rain runnin' down like a train

washing off our pain, so vivid now again

what a nice day for a picnic

what a nice day to be happy

hey, don't you know that?

what a nice day for a picnic

what a nice day to be happy like a honeybee!!

-words by Kenji Ozawa a.k.a The Flipper's Guitar

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i3UHeXXxdJ4

Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead.

Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow.

Just walk beside me and be my friend.

-Albert Camus

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ypQezZwFaD8

Shadows of Trees

And yet there is joy in this day as in the heart of the young sun. Of this joy the world of tables, guns and gods is altogether unaware.

Only to this place where people are standing do shadows of trees lead their hearts home, enveloped in this day's humility.

When I read the sky, sing of clouds, or murmur in joy, as in prayer,

sun and trees alike look upon both what I've forgotten and what I endlessly recall.

-Shuntaro Tanikawa

蒸し暑い６月の太陽に背を向けて 僕らは　しずかな木陰に逃げこんだ

生い茂った草の上　ふたりならんで坐って　 風にゆれる木洩れ陽を　ぼんやりながめていると 光の粒が　まるでいきものみたいに　 ちいさく　ちいさく　身震いし やがて　愉しげに歌いだした

どうせ　あてもない　今日の日だ しばらくこのまま　涼んでいこう あわてないで　いそがないで

ひとやすみ　ひとやすみ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MBxNiCB-5o

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

-Mark Twain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqB8Dm65X18

The floating time is marked by the faint rays from the cloudy sky. I wonder if I can pack air tight this wonderful troublesome feeling? Even if I draw it, as time goes on, something will fade. Forever is always a fleeting shapeless shadow.

Any scene, In my picture definitely you are drawn. With my eyes closed, I can know it when taking a deep breath. You are always in my sketchbook. And forever in my memory…

-words from Kazutoshi Sakurai『Drawing』

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx-yzaW8HEI

Favorite season is always short. And it melts away before we notice.

Just look there, the sea roar is calling early summer…

波が寄せる浜辺　みつめている 白いヨットパーカー　風をあつめて 陽炎がまぶしくて　瞳とじた 不意にふと　目を醒ませば　 みじかい　デイ・ドリーム

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daWgSX6X-kY

With eyes closed, I saw God. When I peeked, God vanished. My Homework will be to find out whether I can see God with my eyes wide open.

- Shuntaro Tanikawa “ Homework ”

いつか誰もが　花を愛し　歌を歌い 返事じゃない　言葉を喋りだすのなら 何千回もの　なだらかに過ぎた季節が 僕にとても　いとおしく想えてくる

神様を　信じる力を　僕に 神様を　信じる力を　僕に

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUa3MZ3QU7s

しばし、いのちが憩う《エデンの園》。 そのちいさな宇宙へと、僕も迷い込むように。

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2quiyHfJQw