日本に生まれて良かった・・・だけど " You might be born in Japan..., but. "

3月ももう終わります

It'll soon also end in March.

東ヨーロッパでは、ロシア侵攻でウクライナが戦っている

火種は世界中に存在している、身近な極東でも・・・

Ukraine is fighting by a Russian invasion at Eastern Europe.

In the close Far East where a source of fire of a war exists in all over the world...

こうして僕がのんびりとバラの花を愛でていれるのも、今は平和な日本に生まれたから。

In this way, that I'm free, because it was just also born in peaceful Japan to love and insert a flower of a rose. 

でも、こんな風に平和ボケでいいんだろうか?

But is peace-at-any-price mind-set OK like such Japanese?

歴史は何度も物語っている、いつまでも平和は続かないと 

History is told many times, that peace doesn't continue forever. 

人に頼らず、自分の守る力を持つ必要があるのではないか。

They may have not to depend on a person and to have the power one maintains.

先日、近くの亜熱帯植物園で、普通には見れないようなものを発見した

Something which can't be seen was ordinarily found at a sub-tropical botanical garden around here the other day.

椿の巨樹の幹が蔓に覆われ、蘭などの寄生植物がたくさん付き、

普段では見れない大きな霊芝までいくつも幹についていた

A trunk of a giant tree of a camellia is covered by a runner up, and many parasitic plants of an orchid stick.

There even was a big bracket fungus of the genus Fomes which can't be seen in usual on the trunk in plenty.

何かがおかしいような気がする

I think something is strange.

この平和が続くのだろうか??

Does this peace continue?

自然がそこにあることは素晴らしいこと " It's wonderful that nature is there. "

娘が大学を卒業した時は僕は大学の役員をしていたので、大学の卒業生の前で挨拶をした。  その時は風の強い日で桜吹雪が舞っていたのを思い出す。

When my daughter graduated from a university, I was an official of a university, so I greeted in front of the graduate of a university.  It's remembered at that time that a storm of falling cherry blossoms was dancing in a windy day.

私の住んでいるところから少し車で走ると満開の桜をたくさん眺めることができる。

When I driving from the place where I live by car a little, it's possible to look at many full-blown cherry trees.

海もすぐ近くにあるし、山も近くにある。

There is also a sea in the neighborhood right now and there is also a mountain in the neighborhood.

自然の懐に自宅があるのはやはり幸せなことです。

It's a happy thing that there is a home in a natural bosom as expected.

この辺りは雪はあまり降らないけど、四季は十分に感じることができる

It doesn't snow so much, but this part can feel four seasons sufficiently.

ある時、桜を眺めていたら、舞い散る花弁達が空中に留まっているんです。

If I'm looking at a cherry tree when having that, the petals which flutter down are stopping in the air.

不思議な光景だな、と思って近づいて観たら蜘蛛の巣に花弁が捕まっていたんです。

If I thought the strange view, approached and saw, a petal was caught by a cobweb.

風情のある自然の風景、素晴らしいですね。

The natural landscape with the taste is wonderful, isn't it?

 

最近は鹿児島にも行ってない " I don't also go to Kagoshima recently. "

鹿児島は故郷だから、以前は毎月言ってましたが、COVID-19が蔓延している状況ではあまり訪問できません。

Because Kagoshima was home country　, before was talking about it every month, but COVID-19 can't be visited so much by the situation that I'm spreading.

最初の写真は鹿児島中央駅から眺める甲突川に桜島

Kotsuki-river &  Sakurajima at the first picture from Kagoshima Central Station.

あのダイナミックな姿の桜島が観たいんです

I'd like to see Sakurajima of that dynamic form.

叔母の家の温泉にもゆっくりと浸かりたい

I'd like to be also flooded slowly in a hot spring in aunt's house.

写真は長島美術館の庭からの景観です

Picture is a view from a garden in Nagashima art museum.

定宿の城山ホテルに泊まってゆっくりと過ごしたい。

I'd like to stay in Shiroyama hotel in a regular hotel and have time slowly.

最後の写真は城山ホテルのレストラン横から、白いモクレンの花が綺麗だった

A flower of a white magnolia was beautiful from the restaurant side in Joyama hotel for the last picture.

ここの料理美味しいんですよ(#^^#)

There are many these restaurants and good dishes.

素敵な女性と過ごしたい場所・・・・鹿児島。

Nice lady and place.... Kagoshima I'd like to spend.

 

明石海峡大橋 " Akashi Strait Bridge "

僕のもう一つのブログ future-compass でも海峡を渡る大橋をたくさん載せていますが、

今日は明石海峡大橋

My another blog  Even  future-compass  up to Ohashi who crosses a strait.

Today is Akashi Strait Bridge.

僕が長崎の佐世保で仕事をしていたころは毎週のように神戸と長崎を往復していましたので

飛行機からはよくこの大橋を見下ろしていました

Because I was going back and forth between Kobe and Nagasaki like every week when I was working at Sasebo in Nagasaki.

I often looked down upon this big bridge from an airplane. 

写真の手前側は神戸市、左側が淡路島

The near side of a picture, Kobe and the left side are Awajishima.

次の写真は淡路島側から神戸・明石方面を眺めたものです

The next picture looked at Kobe and Akashi district from the Awajishima side.

次の写真が淡路島側

The next picture is the Awajishima side.

次の2枚は淡路サービスエリアから撮影したものですが、あいにくこの時は天候が悪く向こう岸は綺麗に撮れてません

The following 2 are the one of which I took a picture from Awaji service area, but unfortunately we have the inclement weather at the same time, and an opposite bank can't take a picture beautifully.

晴れた日は向こう岸が近く見えるけど、雲に遮られるとホントに遠く感じますね

When clearing up, the other side looks close, but you find to be interrupted by cloud really far, right?

明日がいい日でありますように・・・。

As tomorrow will be a good day....

見つめる目 " Look at me!! "

今日は少し描きためておいた絵を一部掲載します

Picture which was drawn and saved a little is carried today.

美しい女性のしぐさはどんなシーンでも素敵ですね

Every kind of scene is nice for beautiful ladys action, isn't it?

誰かを待つようなそのまなざし

The look which waits for someone.

こんな眼差しを向けられたら

If such look can be pointed.

普通の男は、やっぱり惚れちゃいますよね。

An ordinary man fall in love as expected.

こんなに寂しいのは何故なんでしょうか?

Why am I......

 so lonely?

僕のもう一つのブログ　future-compass　にも僕の描いた絵を載せてます

興味がございましたらアクセスしてください。

My another blog  The picture I also drew in future-compass is put on.

If You are interested, please access.

 

春の浜辺 " Beach in spring "

温かい日は、海を観るのがいいんです

On a warm day, it's better to see a sea.

この場所は、観光地としても有名な青島が近くにあって、写真の場所は読売ジャイアンツが春季キャンプをする球場もあります。 

Famous Aoshima also has the stadium where Yomiuri Giants does spring camp in the location of the picture in neighborhood as a tourist spot in this place. 

先日暇つぶしに行ってみたら、浜辺で競走馬がトレーニングをしてました

If I went to waste of time the other day, a racehorse was doing the training at a beach.

この場所は近くに日本中央競馬会の育成牧場もあるんです。

This place is that there is also an upbringing pasture of a Japanese Horse Racing Association in the neighborhood.

競走馬が走る姿は、競馬場以外ではめったに見れないでしょう。

You'd rarely be able to see the form that a racehorse runs at any place but a race track.

僕はよくこんな場面に出くわすんです。ラッキーですね

I often come across such situation. It's lucky, isn't it?

碧い海、青い空の下を走るのは競走馬にとっても気分がいいかもしれません。

To run under the blue sky and side the blue sea may also feel good for a racehorse.

でも、細かな粒子の砂の上は走るにはけっこう辛いんですよ。

But it's quite spicy to run on the sand of a small particle.

僕も浜辺を歩き回って結構な運動量でした。

I went around a beach, too, and it was the good momentum.

USJを空から " USJ, from the sky. "

写真は飛行機から撮った桜島と天保山付近

Around Sakurajima and Tenpozan where a picture was taken from an airplane.

僕が若い頃(20代のころ)   天保山のふ頭あたりで太刀魚を釣った記憶があります

その頃はなにか魚が臭くてすぐにリリースしていました。

When I'm young, (When I'm in twenties.) I have the memory by which Mt. Tenpo fished a hairtail per a wharf.

Some fish smelled at the time, and it was released immediately.

もちろんまだUSJはありませんでした

There has been no USJ yet of course.

今は立派なホテルもたくさん建ち、年間１０００万人くらいの観客が来るそうです

Many wonderful hotels are also built now, and it's said that an audience of about 10,000,000 people a year comes.

僕が行ったのは、まだ開場した当時で、あまりイベントもたくさん見れませんでした。

When the one I did still opened, many events couldn't also be seen so much.

本場のロス近くのユニバーサルスタジオには若い時にロス支社のスタッフに連れて行ってもらいました。

When being young, I had a staff of a LA branch office bring me to Universal Studio near Los Angeles in a home.

最近の様子も観てみたいのですが、人混みが苦手なもので、まだ足が向きません。

I'd like also to see the recent state, a crowd neither likes nor turns his steps yet.

自転車で走り回った和歌山 " Wakayama where I ran about by bicycle "

僕が自転車を始めたのは和歌山で仕事をしていた時

When that I have begun a bicycle was working in Wakayama.

休日に暇があったったので、安い折りたたみ自転車を買いサイクリングを始めた

In a holiday, leisure, oh, I stood up, so an inexpensive folding bicycle has been bought and a cycling has been begun.

その頃指導をしていた会社には高いロードバイク(５０万円以上)に乗って走り回っていた人も数人いたが、僕はそんな本格的なものでなくてほんの趣味でのサイクリング

Several people who were riding an expensive load cycle (more than 500,000 yen) and were running about were in the company which was doing guidance at the time, too, I'm a cycling by such just hobby, not something real.

最初は和歌山市内や紀ノ川沿いを走ってみたり、和歌山大学に行ってみたり

The beginning, in Wakayama-city and, I'll go cycling along Kinokawa and go to Wakayama University,.

そのうち山越えをして大阪南部までサイクリングしていろんな場所の景色を撮影して回りました・・・・休日には１００Km以上走ったこともよくありました。

The case that I ran in the holiday when I went over a mountain, went cycling to the Osaka south, took a picture of the scenery of the various places and went around soon.... more than 100 km was also good.

お寺にもよく行きました、写真は紀三井寺

The picture which often also went to a temple is Kimii-dera.

向かいの和歌浦周辺も走りつくしました。

I also ran around Wakanoura in the other side up.

出会いもたくさんあって友達もたくさんできたんですよ。

There were also many encounters, and a friend could do much, too.

また会いたいと思っています。

I hope that you can meet.