猫たち "The Cats"

今日は日本の猫たち

Today is Japanese cats.

ベンチでたたづむ威厳のある猫

The dignified cat which glares at each other with me at a bench

仲のいい猫のカップル

The cats which bring a body near each other.

写真の猫をモデルに僕が描いた絵

The picture I drew modeled after a cat of a picture

黒と灰色の子猫たち

Black and gray kittens.

茂みから黒い姿をみせて、僕をにらみつけた

Showed the black form from a bush and scowled at me.

和歌山の神社(淡島神社)の境内にいた、のんびりと過ごす猫たち

They was in a precinct in a shrine in Wakayama (Awashima shrine), with freeness, spent cats.

日陰で眠そうな猫

The cat which overlooks by the shade and seems sleepy.

子猫と親猫かな? じゃれ合っていた

A kitten and a pro-cat? I was playing each other.

平和なひと時でした

It was some peaceful time.

僕の絵 「女性と帽子」My painting "lady and hat"

今日は一度載せたかもしれませんが

女性と帽子をテーマに

Once maybe today was put on, with the theme of the lady and the hat.

季節は夏ですから、涼し気な感じの絵を掲載しました

Because a season was summer, the picture which seems to seem cool was carried.

次は帽子は被っていませんが、帽子の写真とコラボレーション

Don't put on a hat , but I collaborate with a picture of the hat.

可愛く描くつもりでしたが、怒ったように見えますか?

It'll be drawn prettily, but do they seem to have gotten angry?

次は帽子の母と娘の散歩風景 

The parent and child who saw and put on a hat

最後はイタリアンスタイルの帽子を被った女性

The end is the lady who put on a hat of an Italian style.

また暑い夏になりそうですね

Hot summer seems to come, doesn't it?

大阪城周辺 "Around Osaka-jo(Castle)

今日はまた大阪城を

Today is Osaka-jo again.

ビジネスパーク側の高層ビルからの景観

View from a skyscraper on the business park side.

夜の大阪城はこんな感じ（同じ場所から撮っています）

Osaka-jo at night, such feeling (picture is being taken from the same place.)

次の写真は大阪城公園からビジネスパークを撮ってます

The next picture is taking a business park from Osaka-jo park.

普段は向こうのツインタワーから大阪城を眺めています

I'm usually looking at Osaka-jo from that twin tower.

大阪城に近づいて天守閣を眺めています

I'm approaching Osaka-jo and am looking at a donjon.

次の写真はツインタワーから、クリスタルタワーと右手奥が梅田方面です

Crystal tower and the right hand inside are Umeda district from a twin tower for the next picture.

大川、寝屋川越しに大阪城を望む

Osaka-jo is taken over Okawa and Neyagawa.

最後の写真は城北川からbusinessパーク側を眺めています

The last picture is looking at the business park side from Johoku river.

大阪城は大好きな場所。

The place where I like Osaka-jo very much.

６月、蛍と梅雨の季節 "June / Season of a firefly and the rainy season"

６月ですね、梅雨の季節です

It's June, a season in the rainy season.

綺麗な小川では蛍も舞っていますよね

Firefly are being also danced at a clean stream.

綺麗な和服姿の女性が蛍を眺めているのもいいですね

It's also nice that the beautiful lady of the form of Japanese clothes is looking at a firefly.

僕の家の庭には３色の季節の花「紫陽花」も咲いてます

3 colors of seasonal flower "hydrangea" is also in bloom in a garden in my house.

ピンクに近い紫

Purple near pink.

土の質が違うのか、１０m離れていても少し色が変わっています

Even if it's 10 m away whether the quality of the earth is different, the color is a little different.

次は完全に紫です

Next,Purple.

玄関わきに咲き始めたのは白、PHの違いで花の色が変わるそうです

It's white that it has begun to bloom aside of the front door, and it's said that the color of the flower changes with the difference in PH.

近くの日本庭園には赤いツツジと菖蒲(アヤメかな?)の花.

The azalea red in a Japanese garden around here and flower of an iris.

少し灰色の梅雨の季節を鮮やかに彩ってくれます

They color a season in the rainy season vividly.

亜熱帯「青島」Subtropical zone "Aoshima"

最近、インスタ栄えしているという黄色いポスト

The yellow mailbox by which INSUTA shines(With Ince tag lamb, popular one) recently.

宮崎、青島にあります

It's in Miyazaki AOSHIMA.

昔ハネムーンのメッカだった(50年くらい前、年間70万組?訪れていた )

It was mecca of an old honeymoon (Before about 50 years and 700,000 sets a year? It was visited.)

今はパワースポットめぐりの観光客であふれている

It's flooded with a tourist of the tour of power spots now.

ここは、青島植物園

Here is Aoshima botanical garden.

庭園の真ん中に赤やピンクのブーゲンビリア

The bougainvillea which are red and pink in the middle of the garden.

温室にはパパイヤも、すぐ近くで地元の名産ということで栽培している農家もある

The papaya is also said to be a local specialty right now around here in a greenhouse, and there is a farmer growing it, too.

 

たくさん実ったバナナ、バナナも近くで栽培したものが、1本800円という高値で売っていた、皮のまま食べれるらしいです。

A condition of the leather the one many bananas which grew and bananas also grew around here was selling by a high price as 800yen(7$) for 1, they seem able to eat.

赤?ショッキングピンクのパイナップル 

Is it red? Pineapple of shocking pink!!

ここはやっぱり亜熱帯

Here, as expected, subtropical zone.

歴戦の勇士 "爆撃機と戦闘機" Veteran hero" bomber and fighter"

今日はちょっと古いですが以前にも紹介しているオシュコシュのエアショーのシーン

It's slightly old today, but Sean of an air show of OshKosh which is being also introduced in before.

第二次世界大戦の勇姿

Hero of the Second World War.

爆撃機　B17

Bomber  B17.

当時の飛行機には美しい女性を描いている機体も多かったようです

There also seem to have been a lot of fuselages drawing a good-looking lady in the airplane in.. those days for the next silver fuselage.

次の機体は　F4U コルセア

The next fighter  F4U  KORUSEA?

翼を折れるようにしてあるので、空母に載せていた艦載機でしょうか?

Wingtips are given to the top, so is it the carrier-based plane put on an aircraft carrier?

これはゼロファイターのレプリカだと思うけど、少し違うような気がします

I think this is Zero fighters' of replica, but I think it's a little different.

機首にティンカーベルと書いてある爆撃機、名前は判りません

The bomber and the name written on a nose of a plane as a TINKER BELLE

aren't understood.

最後のはイギリスの「スピットファイア」かな

Is a last one British fighters "spit fire"?

仕事の合間に遊ぶ・・・ラスベガス "Las Vegas where I play between work..."

ラスベガスには遊びに行く人が多いだろうけど、僕は仕事で何度か行きました

でも、仕事の合間は遊びに行きました

There would be a lot of people who go out to play in Las Vegas, but I went several times to work.

But one between work has gone out to play.

ヘリコプターでのグランドキャニオン観光はとても印象に残っています

The Grand Canyon sightseeing by helicopter makes an impression very much.

写真のパイロットは若い人でしたが、社長は海兵隊で沖縄のヘリコプターの部隊に駐留したことがあるということで仲良くしてもらいました。

A pilot of a picture was a young person, but it was said that they had been stationed at a unit of a helicopter in Okinawa by Marine Corps, and a president was on good terms and had them do.

 途中で操縦かんを握らせてもらったりね

He made them grasp a control column on the way.

ヘリコプターでラスベガスの夜景も楽しみました、ずいぶん前の話だけど

The night view of Las Vegas is also the fact before a long time that I enjoyed myself by helicopter.

夜は、エレクトロニクスショーに参加している企業のパーティーに参加したり

I participate in a party of the enterprise which participates in an electronics show in the evening, and.

取引先の招待でゴルフを楽しんだり、楽しかった思い出です

Golf is enjoyed by client's invitation, and it's a fun memory.

願いは叶う⇒行くことができた世界自然遺産"The World Natural Heritage to which⇒ by which a wish comes true could go"

少しふるいですが、2010年1月30日にこんな記事を書きました

It was a little old, but such article was written on January 30, 2010.

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 昨日、とっても親しくしている(というより僕は親戚のように思っている)友達夫婦と久しぶりにお話をした。

彼らは中国人なんです。

The story was made very after a long time with a doing (Than, I think like a relative.) friend married couple yesterday.

They're Chinese.

とっても優秀な二人で、いまは遠くに住んでるので、たまに電話でしか話せません。

They are very excellent couple and live in a far place now, so we can sometimes speak only by telephone.

彼らもこの九州(宮崎)を第二の故郷と言ってくれてるので、今年は必ず第二の故郷に帰省するようにお願いをしています。

They're calling this Kyushu (Miyazaki) the second home, too, so I'm asking to return home at the second home certainly this year.

次のゴールデンウィークくらいに考えたいと言ってくれているので、すごく楽しみしてます・・・・・・・・・「待ってるからねー！！」

You're saying that I'd like to think about the next Golden Week, so I'm enjoying myself wonderfully........., "Because I'm waiting!!"

昨日の電話でね、二人が中国・四川省の九塞溝へ行く計画もあるという話を聞きました。

僕もね、ここは是非行きたいところなんですよね。

It's yesterday's telephone, the fact that two people plan to go to Jiuzhaigou in China and Szechwan-province was heard.

It's me, too, this is the place where you'd like to go by all means, right?

一緒に行けるといいな～♪

I hope that you can go together-,♪.

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その美しさに出会いたいと、行きたいと強く願ったから、その翌年の夏には願いが叶いました

Because it was hoped hard that I'd like to meet its beauty when I'd like to go, a wish came true in summer of the next year.

九塞溝: 綺麗に澄み切った水と緑の山がとても綺麗でした 

Jiuzhaigou: Water and a green mountain clear beautifully were very beautiful.

九塞溝と同じ四川省北西部 眠山山脈の中にあるもう一つの世界自然遺産にも

In another World Natural Heritage in the same northwest Sichuan's mountains as Jiuzhaigou.

黄龍: 石灰質の白い棚と青い水がとてもきれいな場所でした

HuangLong: A white shelf and blue water of lime matter were a very beautiful place.

黄山 : 水墨画の世界のような岩山と木々

HuangShang : Expensive rocky mountain and trees like the world of a monochrome ink painting

蘇州 :  古い歴史を物語る運河の街まで連れて行ってもらいました

Suzhou: He brought me to the town of the canal which tells old history.

強く願い、思い続けることは大切です

It's important to hope and keep the mind on it hard.