The view on New Year's one night before eve

I was taking pictures on my iPhone camera from the restaurant windows.
They are really interesting photos kind of magical mirror.

I was charmed by the tricks of the view for a while, saying good bye to the year 2010.
I'm now welcoming the coming year soon.
Hope everything goes well and the happy come around us!

Even a dog in the floor heater with blanket

One Japanese old children's song tells that dogs are running around outside in the garden and cats are staying in the warm heater inside when it snows and never stops hail in cold winter days.

Nowadays not only my dog but also other dogs living inside like cats seem to like staying in the warm place especially near the heater.
They have been made tame and they can no longer live outdoors like those before.....
I'm afraid of their losing instinct and independence.

You know the development of the culture and society brings us great prosperity and wealthy but somehow we might lose something important ...we can't live without electronics nor technology.
Left alone in the deserted Island, most of us would never survive because we are too tame!

It comes to my thoughts that even the dog staying in the warm shouldn't be blamed.
Anyway my dog thinks herself the same one as us....she is of course a member of my family.

Marie in the blanket

Awesome iband

Here comes an incredible band, called 'band'

They are playing with no instrument but iPads and iPhones.

They play the band so happily and nice.

I've never imagined such techno music so cool.

Steven Jobs might be so proud of their playing.

I totally admid he is really an entertainer as well a presenter of great pleasure.

The hung salmon

I happened to find salmon being hung in front of the shop when I stopped in my car.

It was special view in winter so common when I was small but theses days are hardly to be seen.

It's  because of the great progress of preservation technology, such as fridge and freezer at home. We can easily keep food fresh for a while.

The salmon is called ' aramaki sake' which is salted and dried hanging in the air to keep it edible  without fridge or freezer but only in winter season.

It's one of the wisdom how to make stored food for winter period in the past.

Then I was very nostalgic at those traditional food and gazed it until the signal light turned to blue.

rainbow over the mountain

There was an extremely low atmospheric pressure and after it has gone, it appeared a big arch.
I stopped driving the car and gazed it for a moment. It was really a beautiful rainbow and behind it was a great view of the Mt.Tate.

But I'm very sorry that I can't show you not so good picture as the real view I saw.
I hope you can have the chance to see the big arch over the mountain next time.

Special view in winter 2

We can see lightenig up with great illumination at night In winter.

My friend sent me a photo of the night view in Sapporo. It shows a crane in the center of the object. It seems very different from my area.

We enjoy various kinds of light art in winter.

light up in Sapporo

light up in Toyama

Special view in winter

The season for viewing swans coming back to stay over here during winter.

They are going to immigrate for a few months in the rice field after the harvest.

The owner takes care of swans for food and water pool in the vacant field to let them swim.

I love watching them swimming and flying around there.

It's also a great view of Mt. Tate when it's clear fine.

I took some pictures in the early winter.

                                              

                                              

What a wonderful world

It was a brilliant today and yesterday, too.
I enjoyed warm and bright sunshine for two days.
I really welcome the sunlight after the cold weather in winter.
It reminds me of the popular song ' What a wonderful world '

I couldn't help singing to myself for a moment in the rest of winter coldness.

What a wonderful world


I see trees of green, red roses too

I see them bloom for me and you

And I think to myself, what a wonderful world

I see skies of blue and clouds of white

The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night

And I think to myself, what a wonderful world

The colours of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky

Are also on the faces of people going by

I see friends shakin' hands, sayin' "How do you do?"

They're really saying "I love you"

I hear babies cryin', I watch them grow

They'll learn much more than I'll ever know

And I think to myself, what a wonderful world

Yes, I think to myself, what a wonderful world

Oh yeah