なんだか似てるでしょ "It would be somewhat similar."

今日の写真、やっぱり似ているよな・・・・

Today's picture is similar as expected.....

双発のターボプロップ機

Twin-engined turboprop.

次は大型の白鳥が空港横の川にアプローチしてきた

A large swan has approached a river next to the airport next.

川を滑走路に見立てて着水(着陸)

She choose between a river in a runway and make the splashdown (landing).

隣の空港では、ただいま着陸 

It'll land right now at the next airport.

着水後静かに水面を滑ってきます

Surface of the water, slipping.

飛行機はハンガーへ向かって

After an airplane goes to the hanger.

やっぱり鳥と飛行機は似ています

An airplane is akin to a bird as expected.

中国からお土産でもらった帆船を修理した "Repairing of a model ship"

中国の友人からもらった帆船(帆は水牛の角を使って作ってある)

The sailboat I got from my Chinese friend (A sail is made using a horn of a buffalo.)

これがセールを張るワイヤーが切断されてバラバラになりかけていた

The wire on which a sale is stuck was cut, and this had begun to be dispersively.

代わりのワイヤーを買ってきて帆を張り直し、そのほかの壊れた部分を修復した

An alternative wire was bought, a sail was spread again and the other broken parts were restored.

前方のセールに「一」「帆」「風」「順」とある

It's written on a sale in front as "one" "sail" "wind" "the order".

これは中国の諺で縁起がいいらしい

This is a Chinese proverb, the origin is very.

It seems good.

救命ボートもバランスよく取り付けた

 Life raft often also installed a balance.

船体に、このモデルシップの会社(中国)のシールが貼ってある

A sticker of a company of this model ship (China) is stuck on a hull.

僕の手作りの帆船と比べて・・・どちらがいいですか??

It's compared with my homemade sailboat, and... which would you like?

佐世保物語① "Sasebo story(1)"

僕が佐世保で仕事をしていたのは以前に書いているが

I'm writing that I was working at Sasebo before.

今日は少し暗い歴史を

I'll write a little dark history today.

最初の写真は手前側が浦頭の港 

The harbor where the near side is Uratou for the first picture

その港の裏手のT字路横に記念碑が立っている

A monument stands next to the T-intersection in the back of the harbor.

引揚記念の平和の像

Peaceful image of Repatriate commemoration

案内板もそこにあり

Guideboard

佐世保は明治の時代より日本でも有数の軍港

The naval base where Sasebo is also more eminent in Japan more than the time of the Meiji

第二次世界大戦で敗戦後に引揚者の受け入れ港の一つがここで、約140万人もの引揚者がアジア各地から帰還してくる拠点港だった

One of repatriate's acceptance harbors was the base harbor where a repatriate as much as about 1,400,000 people is returning from Asia all part here after loss in the Second World War.

ここで引き上げて、現在のハウステンボス駅の一つ隣の駅、南風崎駅から全国に帰っていったようだ

They seem to have left here and have been returning from the station next to one and Haenosaki station in the present Huis Ten Bosch station to the whole country.

写真は天気が良くなくあまり解像度は良くないが、向こう側に現在はアメリカ海軍と海上自衛隊の基地がある・・・・・灰色の船はアメリカ海軍の軍艦

It isn't fine and the picture isn't good for the resolution so much, the gray ship by which a base of U.S. Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force is on the other side at present..... is a warship of U.S. Navy.

時折、この付近に大型の空母も姿を見せる(これはまた別の機会に紹介しよう)

A large aircraft carrier also now and then appears around here (I'll introduce this a different chance again.)

よく自転車で佐世保に住んでいた頃は走り回ったが、なぜか少し重苦しい思いがしたのは気のせいではなかったんだと思う。

When I often lived in Sasebo by bicycle, I ran about, the one a little gloomy expectation did for some reason, intention because, if, I think.

大阪散歩 "Osaka walk"

僕が大阪で休日に歩きまわるときは、このあたりからスタート

When I go around in a holiday in Osaka, I start from this part.

中の島を越えて天神橋あたりへ

It's Tenjin-bashi beyond a Nakanoshima.

長い長いアーケード街があって、暇つぶしにはぴったりの場所

The place where a long long arcaded street meets and fits waste of time

大阪駅あたりまで行って、そろそろ引き返す

I even do around Osaka station and return by.

戻ってくると、近くにお薬の神様「神農さん」が

The Shrine which is medicine around here when I return, "Shinno-san"

きちんとお参りをして帰ります。

I put an offering in, visit and return.

僕のギャラリー#5 (僕の描いた絵を) Gallery #5

僕の描いた絵をまた載せよう

I'll put the picture I drew again.

今日の絵は１０年以上前に描いたものばかりです

Only the one which drew today's picture before more than 10 years.

男と女は抱き合って温もりが伝わるよ

何も言わないでも伝わる瞬間

The moment your heart is transmitted even if you say nothing.

夢の中で会いたいね

I'd like to meet in the dream.

Your look hangs me on magic.

捕食 "Predation"

今日は水鳥が魚を狙う様子を

A waterfowl is the state at which fish is aimed today.

この黒い水鳥、「オオバン」という名前のようです

They seem to be this black waterfowl and the name as "coot".

大きさは、ここは餌の魚が多いらしく、鴨くらいの大きさです

The size seems rich in fish of food here, and is the size which is about duck.

僕の街の真ん中を流れる川の浅瀬で魚を狙っていました

It's aimed at fish at a bank on the river which flows in the middle of my town.

魚を見つけたようです

Found fish!

水の中に潜りました

Dived in the water.

4,5秒水の中を潜っていた鳥が、小魚を銜えています 

The bird which was evading in the water for 4,5 seconds is holding a fry in its mouth.

近くでは５０Cm以上もある鯉が３匹悠々と泳いでいました

3 of some carp was swimming expansively more than 20 inches in the neighborhood.

僕の描いた絵 ギャラリー#4 "The picture I drew / Gallery #4"

今日は自画像

Today is a self-portrait.

最初のはだいぶ前だけど　鏡を見ながら描いたもの

The one the one at the beginning was the front a lot, but which was drawn while looking at the mirror.

可愛く描きすぎだって、その頃の写真があるよ・・・だいぶ雰囲気が違うかな

There is a picture of the time drawn badly coolly..., is the atmosphere quite different?

次は、仕事の悩みの多いときかな、酒をたくさん飲んでいた時代 

When next, are there a lot of worries of work, the time when I was drinking much alcohol.

これも飲みながら鏡を眺めて・・・・あの頃は悩み多き時代でした

That time looked at a mirror, and.... was tortured and was a lot of times though it also drank this.

最後の写真は画家から僕の似顔絵を描いてもらったやつ

The last picture is he who drew my caricature from a painter.

どれが僕に似ているのでしょう??

Which will be similar to me?

画家の名前も入っているので周りをカットしました

The name of the painter was also written, so the turn was cut.

春の香り "The fragrance of the Spring"

野薔薇はひっそりと咲いていました

Wild roses bloomed quietly.

黄色い花が遠くから目立って見えたので近づいて撮影

Yellow flower stood out from a far place and was seen, so I approach and take a picture.

桜はもうすぐ花を散らしてしまいそうです

Cherry tree seems to scatter a flower soon.

でも緑の中に白い花はとても印象的でした

But the white flower was very striking in the green.

山の公園では、まだ満開の桜が残っていた

Full-blown cherry tree was still left at a park in a mountain.

青い空をバックに、かすかに甘い香りを風に乗せながら咲いている

It's in bloom while putting a superficial fragrance on a wind faintly with the blue sky in the background.

大阪城と桜 "Osaka-jo(Castle) and Sakura(Flower of a cherry tree)

大阪に住んでいる娘から写真が届いた

I have received a picture early in the morning from my daughter who lives in Osaka.

どうやら早朝の散歩をしているようだ

They probably seem to be strolling through early morning.

川沿いの満開の桜を眺めながらボートが水面を滑っていくように

While looking at a full-blown cherry tree in a riverside, a boat, a surface of the water, slip.

桜並木がアーケイドのようになっている

Sakuranamiki is an arcade.

朝日を浴びた大阪城と桜のコントラストが最高

Contrast in Osaka-jo and Sakura where I was bathed in the morning sun is best.

僕が仕事をしていたビジネスパーク、花は桜か桃の花??

Is it a peach flower whether the business park where I was working and a flower are a cherry tree?

朝の早い時間でも、もう観光客が多く詰めかけてくる   

Tourists will soon also throng much in early in the morning time.

エクセレント、ワンダフル!!

It's excellent and wonderful!