Harvest #002-2 (a mustard family )

Today's Harvest

and Miso Soup with them for one of our breakfast

Harvest #002-1 (a mustard family )

These are today's harvest.

These will be a filling of miso soup tomorrow.

Here is the mustard(Kakina) bed.

#007 Crocus

This flower is opening up at the same place like last year and two years ago.


Three weeks later, I picked up flowers and buds of strawberry again and again.

I am not sure that we will be able to eat a lot of strawberry fruits in this season.

Harvest #001 (potato)

I got the first harvest in this year at our garden.

I pick up weeds and them dug up this area yesterday.
I could catch these potatoes which get called in autumn potato.
Another one gets called in spring potato.


The picked weeds put under a citrus, Setoka.



I planted the spring potato on March 21 last year at same place.

I planted them yesterday.
That's faster one month than last year.

The weeds will be plant food for the Setoka.

#006 Hotokenoza "SEAT of BUDDHIST IMAGE"

I saw the weed "Hotokenoza" on March last year and two years ago in our garden.

These are today's photos.

It seems that the opening of a flower is faster a month than last year.

Hotokenoza, "Hotoke" means Buddhist image, "no" means Of and "za" means seat in English.
So Hotoke-no-za means "SEAT of BUDDHIST IMAGE".

A whack-a-mole

I found a whack-a mole at our garden the day before yesterday.

The following pictures are took this morning.

Snowing again yesterday night!

We used to see such whack-a-mole at there every this season.

But there were very tragic drams on a mole last year.

Amen!?!

Ikebana ( Single-flower vase )

AyeYai did flower arrangement using the the camellia flower yesterday.

Here is her works of Ikebana.

This is a big Single-flower from nature yesterday.

I expect her works of Ikebana and her photographs this year again.

#005 Camellia Japonica

These pictures are the Camellia Japonica this morning.

It's first flower in the tree.

This bud will be second flower.

Third, Forth.............. ?

This is whole figure of the Camellia Japonica which has one flower now.

Sometimes it's a paradise for insects.

Freezing test - 1

I prepared several full and not full buckets at our parking space with roof like this picture yesterday snowing night.

I prepared them at two locations like above picture.

This is one location for the test without roof of parking place.
Another location is under the roof.

The following pictures were the result.

I could not have the different ices.

The snowing prevented my test.

I will continue the testing.

Differential freezing ice

Here is rain water pails area in our garden.

I found out differential freezing ice in the area yesterday.

It was very cold.

This picture is freezing ice of pailful water.

But this one is another freezing ice in a pail.

In this case, the pail did not have full water like this.

What difference condition was there between them except amount of the water?

Today's Cycad after Snowing

JJ san, thank you for your comment!
Yes, my cycad is fine today like this.

Here is a story of the cycad.

There was a world in the cycad palm three years ago.

Snowing

Yesterday's night was snowing.

It's the first snow of this season!

These pictures are today's morning view.


Here is the snowing view in our garden last year.

My blog has some kind of snowing.

This is the strawverry field.

Menu of the new year's party

These photos are dishes for the party.

Sampler of sliced raw fishes, left sliced is tuna and another is Japanese amberjack.


Boiled filed mustard with chips of tried bonito


Anglerfish hot pot


Sampler of Temperas, sweet potato, pumpkin, eggplant, squid, shrimp, onion and butterbur sprout

Croquette

Teriyaki jaw meat of Japanese amberjack

Fried oyster

Ankake Ykisoba, It's a kind of ramen.

Ramen

This is finishing menu for almost elbow-benders in Japan.

It seems routine meal for Japanese drinkers.

#004 Swamp chrysanthemum, Tow weeks later

This is only one Swamp chrysanthemum this year.

There were many swamp chrysanthemum in our garden two years ago.


Tow weeks later, I picked up flowers and buds of strawberry again.

I wonder we can eat sweet strawberries this season because of the phenomenon.