寒い時は南の島へ " When it's cold, it's to a southern island. "

11月の晦日です

End of November.

もう冬なんですね

It's already winter, isn't it?

寒くなると暖かな場所に行きたいですね。

It's already winter, isn't it?

ハワイも良いけど、わが故郷の島々もいいですよ

Hawaii is good but also good for islands in my country.

今日、ご紹介するのは奄美大島。　ここも原色の世界です

It'll be Amami-oshima to introduce today. This is also the vivid colored world.

写真の実はパイナップルではありません、アダンの実です。

Adan's fruit by which a picture isn't a pineapple actually.

鮮やかな赤の花、ハイビスカスも咲いてます

The vivid red flower and hibiscus are also in bloom.

※僕の家には今も黄色い花をつけたハイビスカスがありますが、ここは島と違って寒いので寒さ対策にビニールで覆いました

※ My house garden also had hibiscus with a yellow flower now, but it was different from an island and cold here, so I covered with vinyl in a cold measure.

海の中も原色の世界が広がっていて、色とりどりの珊瑚も見れますよ。

The vivid colored world also spreads in the sea, and multicolored coral can also be seen.

最後の写真は双発の練習機で飛んだ時の途中で、竹島上空です

The last picture is the way when flying by twin-engined trainer, and it's in the Takeshima sky.

COVID-19の3回目のワクチン注射も早くしたいけど、インフルエンザの予防注射は先週やりましたよ。

I'd like also to do the 3rd time of vaccine injection of COVID-19 early, but a preventive injection of the flu was done last week.

予防は大切です。

The prevention is important.

お元気ですか? " How are you? "

 スイスにはもう10年近く行ってません

 I don't go to Switzerland in nearly already 10years.

何度も仕事で行ってたのですが、最近関係している会社はスイスとの取引がありません

I went to work many times, there are no dealings with Switzerland in a related company recently.

チューリッヒ国際空港のバスターミナル

Bus terminal in Zurich international airport

仕事の合間に歩き回った街が大好きなんです

I like the town where I went around between work very much.

あの頃、海外の取引先も日本によく来られていて

After an overseas client has come to Japan at that time, too.

工場見学とか、新製品の仕様打合せに合わせて、近場を案内をよくしていました

According to the specification meeting of the new product of visiting a factory, a nearby place, a guide was improved.

写真はスイスの会社の経営者ご夫婦

Picture is a proprietor married couple of a Swiss company.

仲良く日本庭園で写真を撮りました
I was on good terms and took a picture by a Japanese garden.

仕事がなくても遊びにおいでと言われているんですが、最近はご無沙汰しています。

Even if there is no work, it's idle and said to be by the smell, a long thing is silent.

お元気ですか? 

How are you? 

ゆっくりあのスイスアルプスをトレッキングでもしたいのですけどね。

The Switzerland Alps, I'd like to go trekking slowly.

いついけるかな??

When can I go?

危険な領域 " Dangerous territory "

日本には、今まで行けていたのに、危険なので立ち入り禁止の場所が意外と多いんです。

Though you could go to Japan so far, it's dangerous, so that a restricted place is unexpected, a lot.

この写真はロープウェイに乗って山を登っています。 

This picture takes a ropeway and is climbing a mountain.

文字が逆さ文字ですが、窓の外に書いてあり外から読めるようになってるんですね。

The character is the reverse character, it's written outside the window, from outside, they seem able to read, it is.

先月10月２０日に噴火した阿蘇山中岳

One in Aso-san "Nakadake" on October 20 of last month.

ロープウェイが中岳火口付近に到着

 Ropeway arrives around the Nakadake crater.

僕が行ったのは、このロープウェイが閉鎖される直前に登っています

Just before this ropeway is closed, the one I did is climbing.

河口近くから西側に見えるレストラン・ドライブイン・阿蘇火山博物館が見えます

The restaurant & drive-in & Aso volcano museum the west side sees from estuary neighborhood is seen.

阿蘇火山博物館前には草千里の草原が広がっており、ここでは馬に乗って走り回った思い出があります。　今は、ここまでは禁止区域外になってます

Grassland in Kusasenri spreads in front of the Aso volcano museum, and there is a memory which rode a horse here and ran about. It's the prohibited ward area now to here.

日本では海底火山まだ噴火し、世界中の火山も大きな噴火が発生してます。

Submarine volcano still erupts in Japan, and a big eruption also generates a volcano in all over the world.

地球が何かに怒っているのでしょうか??

Is the earth angry with anything?

僕のもう一つのブログ　future-compass 　でもいろんなことを投稿しています

時間のある方はアクセスしてね。

My another blog  Various things are being also contributed in future-compass

Please access the one with time.

サンフランシスコとハワイ " San Francisco and Hawaii !! "

動けない時間が2年近くもあり、新しく更新したパスポートがまだ綺麗な状態です。 

Time when it can't move around is also near and is the state that the passport renewed newly is still beautiful for 2 years. 

サンフランシスコに住む友人達は元気かな??

Are my friends who live in San Francisco fine?

フィッシャーマンズワーフで知り合った彼女は今頃どうしてるだろう?

How would she who met at Fisherman's Wharf do now?

もう自分の国で、あの頃のことを思い出しているかな?

Is that time already remembered in its country?

まさに、「思い出のサンフランシスコ」

Indeed "I left my Heart in San Francisco!"

金門橋にて/In the Golden Gate Bridge.

ハワイ、オアフ島の浜辺で友人が撮ってくれた写真

The picture my friend took at a beach in Hawaii and Oahu.

お世話になった、あの店のオフィスから撮ったカハルウあたりの景色

The scenery per the Kahaluu beech cormorant which was taken from an office in that store which was under care.

今頃、みんなはどうしてるのだろう

Now, how will everyone do?

また皆さんに会いに行きたい(#^^#)

I'd like to go to meet everyone again (#^^#).

落差を感じる秋 " The autumn when the gap is felt. "

もう１１月も半ばです。北海道なら雪が降り始めてますよね。

November is also the middle. It has begun to snow Hokkaido, has not it?

ところが、僕の家の近くの公園では、桜の木に青い葉とピンクの花が咲いてました。

But, a pink flower bloomed with a green leaf in a cherry tree tree at a park near my house.

車なら１０数分で海に行けるので海に行きました、浜辺での空気はとても暖かかった

I could go from my house to a sea in about 10 minutes, so it was to the extent it was in a sweat when I walked the seashore air which went to a sea very warmly.

あの「青島」や岸辺に生えるヤシの木々や空の色も全く晩秋ということを感じさせません

Uh, I don't make them find completely also to call "Aoshima", the palm trees from which I grow in a shore and the color of the sky a late fall.

隣の亜熱帯植物園内ではパパイヤの実を実らせています(路地ですよ)

There are many fruits in a papaya tree in the subtropical plant park (It's a lane.)

本当に温かさを感じる花々でしょう

The flowers which feel the warmth really.

綺麗な青空の下に、バナナが花を開き、ピンク色の実をつけています

Banana holds a flower and is putting a pink fruit under the beautiful blue sky.

この辺りは真冬でも霜も降りないし、常夏の国に近いでしょう。

Frost doesn't also fall in midwinter and this part would be near a country of everlasting summer.

これが宮崎の海辺の秋です。

This is autumn on a beach in Miyazaki.

 

ちょっと古いニューヨーク " Slightly old New York! "

僕はずいぶん前からアメリカの企業と取引をやっていた

I was trading with an American enterprise from the front a lot.

今日の写真は最初にニューヨークへ出張した時の写真

The picture when today's picture made a business trip to New York first.

最初の写真は、あの「めぐり逢えたら」の最後のシーンで有名になったエンパイア・ステートビルの展望階から

The first picture, that, "Sleepless in Seattle", from a view floor of Empire who became famous for the last scene and Bill State.

あの映画は１９９３年ですから、あれより少し前です、１９９３年当時は三菱商事がこのビルを所有するころではないでしょうか

Because it's 1993, that movie is the front more slightly than that, isn't it when Mitsubishi possesses this building in 1993?

僕が最初に訪問したころは、まだPAN AM. ビルがありました

The time I visited first, still, PAN AM. There was a building.

今は、また新しいビルが沢山できて、ずいぶん様子が変わっています

Many new buildings are made again now, and the state is very different.

ニューヨークから地方の空港に飛ぶときに、小さな双発のプロペラ機に載せられたときはびっくりしました。　飛行機を間違えているのではないかと思ったんです

When flying to the local airport from New York, when being put on a small twin-engined propeller plane, I was surprised. I thought the wrong airplane might be taken.

ラガーディア空港にて

In La-Guardia Airport.

ホテルでの逸話もたくさんあります

There are also many anecdotes at a hotel.

兎に角、若かった・・・・・

Anyway I was young!!......

失敗も多かった、アメリカでの仕事

Work in the United States where I also had a lot of failure.

苦労もしたけど、自分を成長させてくれました

I had trouble a lot, but this made me grow.

 

 

あの美しき風景が観れなくなるかも " You may not be able to see that beautiful landscape any more. "

日本は火山列島ですが、そのうちでも九州は最も活火山が多い場所です 

Japan is Volcano Islands, but Kyushu is a place with the most active volcanos even shortly.

最初の写真は何処だと思います

Where is the first picture?

１０月２０日に火砕流が周囲1.6kmにも及ぶ噴火した阿蘇山・中岳の第一火口です、１０年前に僕が実際に行って火口を覗き写真を撮ったものです。

Pyroclastic flow is the first crater in Aso-san which erupted and Nakadake where I also come to the surrounding 1.6km on October 20, I went, looked stealthily at a crater and took a picture actually 10 years ago.

次の写真は噴火後、サンケイのニュース写真を借りてます

After an eruption, the next picture borrows a news of the Sankei news.

僕が写真を撮影したときは、ロープウェイを利用して登ったのですが

その後すぐに噴火警報レベルが上がり、一般登山客の入山禁止となりました

The time when I took a picture, using a ropeway, it was climbed.

Eruptive trigger/alarm level will rise immediately after that, and I'm a general mountaineering visitor, you didn't become able to enter.

あのニュース写真に建物が写っていますが、１０年前に行ったときは次の写真のような感じでした。

A building came out in that news picture, but when going 10 years ago, it was feeling like the next picture.

隣の県、鹿児島県には桜島という有名な活火山がありますが、毎日のように爆発は起きており、そのうち大爆発が発生する可能性は非常に高いといわれています

There is a famous active volcano called Sakurajima in the next prefecture and Kagoshima-ken, but it's erupting like every day, and it's said that a possibility that large explosion occurs soon is very high.

５年くらい前に中腹にある展望所から撮影した噴火の様子で、この程度の噴火は連日のように発生しています

An eruption of this degree be every day in the eruptive state of which you took a picture from the view place in the side before about 5 years, it occurs.

次の写真はやはり１０年前に噴火した霧島山系の新燃岳

鹿児島県・宮崎県の県境にあります

Shimmoedake of Kirishimayama course where the next picture erupted 10 years ago as expected

It's in a border between prefectures in Kagoshima-ken and Miyazaki-ken.

手前の道路のある近くの硫黄山も小規模の噴火と微動が続いているので入山禁止となっています、今地震も怖いのですが、火山の噴火も再び活動期に入ったのではないかと心配です

Small-scale eruption and tremor also lead to Io-zan in neighborhood with the front road, so I'm also afraid of now's earthquake you don't become able to enter, a volcanic eruption is also worried maybe that I entered in an active phase again.

いずれの場所も四季の景観がとてもきれいな場所なので

Because a view in four seasons is a very beautiful place both places.

今、行ける場所までは行って美しい景観を撮っておくべきか悩ましいところです。

It's a disturbing place whether to go to the place where you can go now and take a beautiful view.

波の造形 " Modeling of a wave!! "

海の波の力ってすごいですね

The power of the wave in a sea is wonderful,

海岸の岩をすごいパワーで彫刻をしていく力がある

Seashore rock, it's being eroded by the terrible power.

写真は台湾北部の野柳の海岸にある奇岩群

The strangely shaped rock crowd who has a picture in a coast of a Yeliou International Park in the Taiwan north.

次の写真は女王頭と言われている

The next picture is said to be a queen head.

これからますます強さを増す台風が来襲すると、いつまでこの形を維持出来るかわからない(あと１００年以内で無くなってしまうという話もある)

When the typhoon which will increase the strength increasingly now attacks, I don't know until when this shape can be maintained (I also have the something to discuss that it disappears within 100 more year.)

次の写真はわが故郷の、波状岩(鬼の洗濯板と言われている)

The wavy rock by which the next picture is my country (It's said to be demon's washboard.).

次の写真は日南市にある獅子岩

Shishiiwa(Lion lock)、where the next picture is in Nichinan-city.

日本のいたる処(いや世界中に)に岩場に大穴を開けた様子はよく見かける

Often come across the state which has a big hole in rocky stretch at the place where Japan comes (no, in all over the world).

いつかは、自然の力(波のパワー)でなくなっていき、また新しい造形物(奇岩)が新しく生まれるのでしょうか?

It's the power by which some time is nature (power of a wave), any more, a new modeling thing (strangely shaped rock) is new again.

 

ハワイ、空港とパールハーバー " Hawaii, the airport and Pearl Harbor "

 ハワイの玄関口はDaniel K Inoue International Airportですが、隣接して米海軍の航空基地があります(ヒッカム航空基地)

Hawaiian stoop is Daniel K Inoue International Airport, but an air base of a Airforce in the US neighbors, and is here (Hickam air base).

ハワイに行かれる方はよくご存じですよね

You prefer the one gone on in Hawaii and know.

次の写真は、パールハーバーの湾内の様子

The next picture is the state in the bay of Pearl Harbor.

写真はヒッカム航空基地(今はパールハーバー・ヒッカム統合基地)ですが、空には民間のジェット旅客機が見えます

But a jetliner sees a Hickam air base (now, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam) as a picture in the sky.

次は戦艦アリゾナのメモリアルです

Next, Arizona Memorial.

次はリムパック時のパールハーバーの様子をちょっと前のニュース写真からお借りしたものです。この時は日本の海上自衛隊の艦船も共同訓練のため寄港しているはずです

I borrowed the state of Pearl Harbor at the time of Rimpac from the previous news picture a little next. Japanese ships of Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force should also stop at a port for common practice at the same time.

最後の写真は空港上空からパールハーバー方面を撮ったものですね

The last picture took Pearl harbor district from the airport sky.

ここは米軍、太平洋艦隊の司令部 なんですよね。

This is U.S. forces and headquarters of the pacific fleet.