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It’s so dark that I almost gave up taking a photo today

Petals of Rose “Princesse de Monaco” on the Ground

My digital camera is of 12 years-old that doesn’t have the function of shake compensation. That means that, when the sky is dark, I cannot take a photo unless otherwise using flush light.
I didn’t want to go outside because of rain, but I went to a supermarket in the afternoon to buy chrysanthemum flowers to offer in front of my late dad’s photo frame.

And just before I started writing this post, I had been singing “Sukiyaki” that was the song of Kyu SAKAMOTO. Singing that song, I played my piano — but I should admit that my technique is poor.

Dark, Wet, and Chilly; Late Autumn in Niigata, Northern Part of JAPAN

The Season of Flowers are now Almost Over in Northern JAPAN

I gave up going outside and taking pictures for today’s post.
Instead I am staying my house whole day for preparations for coming week’s classes.

No trains Running at that Time because of Nearby Fire Accident

A Bridge of JR Shin’Etsu Line in Niigata, Northern JAPAN

I took a walk after nap today. Though I wanted to take a picture of trains running on the bridge, someone told me that trains operation was being halted. He was also waiting there with his cameras and tripod. Thanked him, I left there soon.

A Dream that I saw this Morning, but didn’t Cause any Overslept

Yellow Flowers of “Tsuwa-Buki” in my Garden

In the dream, I was going to marry a lady. I hadn’t expected such thing happened to me. And it seemed that things were going well. I was surprised there was one person who would be with me.

Remaining Seedlings of Lettuce; I have already planted some on the Ground.

But soon, I found that she was no longer there. I mean she just disappeared. Actually I felt like that I had just confirmed again there was no one who wanted to be with me. To me, it’s just a usual thing.

Mountain Gozu, famous in Niigata Plain

So that was the time I woke up this morning at usual time. Now my mom is staying at my sister’s house near Tokyo. I don’t have to prepare breakfast for my mom. Besides, there is one hour time difference between me and my students, I don’t have to get up early. In this opportunity, I should have slept more in order to get rid of my tiredness. But the dream made me wake up. That was a dream that I didn’t need to see.

Autumn Sky

What is the best Proportion of Meat and Vegetable in Curry?

Japanese Style Curry, Probably different from the Curry that People in India cook.

Of course I know that the more meat, the better taste a curry becomes. But the amount of meat is predetermined because I always buy one package of meat from supermarket. On the other hand, the amount of vegetable can be increased as much as I can cut because there are a lot of vegetable that I harvested from my garden.
So, every time I cook curry, it results in big portion of vegetable and small portion of meat. It is not so good in view of taste. The same thing happened to today’s chicken curry.

A Plant whose name I don’t know

I Found this Plant Yesterday while I took an Afternoon Walk

It is Saturday. I planted some lettuce on the ground in my garden in morning hours. And I cut and threw the Bitter Melon away because its season is over. I finished gardening at 11 a.m.
Since then I proofread students’ drafts for monthly newsletter kind of things. A student overlooked (or neglected) the same corrections twice. So I had to point out the same thing three times.
I took a nap around 2p.m. and then I continued to send feed-backs to my students for the tasks that I told them to do and submit during the class this week.
And…

It was just a normal weekend for me. I kept working for my students.

Why Other’s Persimmon Trees Have Got a Lot of Fruits?

This Persimmon tree is not mine but other’s

Some years ago, I have planted several persimmon trees in my garden in order to pollinate each other. But None of them got fruits like this one, this year. I don’t know why. But I know that it is reality that I cannot do what other people can.