Weekend get away

I went Vancouver island last weekend to visit friends.

It was foggy in the morning.

Luckily, I could see the sun.

We went Chou chou in Victoria.

..and trails.

My friends, they have a house with their garden in Sooke.

Branches for the wood stove.

  This place is a different area, in the end of the island, I often came to through stones.

I saw incredible sunset in a way home, was a bonus.

After the storm

Yesterday's weather was like a storm came to our town..

After the storm, I saw a rainbow and sun came up in the late afternoon.

I walked down to a park then I saw many colours of leaves flying with cold wind. 

The lighting was amazingly gold, the scene was like a dream. 

Btw..I'll have a mini-hat show at a French style cafe called "coco et olive" on Main street.

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The month of frost

This morning, I found neighbourhood's roofs are frosting -

Halloween spirits were back to their place, seems like "Count winter" has been arrived.

November called "a month of frost" in Japanese old language, "Shimo-tsuki"

This is my favourite time, mid-autumn to beginning of winter.

perfect half circle

Double rainbow appeared in Vancouver yesterday.

I bet the end is in front of my apartment.

I could see perfect half circle.

Looking for spring

We went to a lake to enjoy the sun.

Dogs were walking everywhere in the park.This is somebody's dog.

Last time we visited this park, everything was frozen.

Now the ices were melted away by the spring sunshine.

Frosty days1

A cold winter day..

I baked Caramel onion pie.

My boyfriend made the filling with onion,mushrooms with balsamic vinegar.

Great with goat cheese.Yum.

Good bye mr. spider

spider - my item, the motif is inspired by the spider in my room

I'm doing spring cleaning in these days, when I have a time.

I always say hi to a spider lives in my bed room and I was always carefully to clean the room not to bother the spider, but it seems like he moved to other place after my big cleaning.

His spot is always empty in these few days.

I'm missing the spider, probably he should live outside to be able to get more foods.

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Fairy tale in town

I go to see fairy tale mushrooms at a same spot every year.
The other day in this year I went the spot in the middle of a long walk, sadly I couldn't see them.
It looked like they were just destoroyed by somebody.
I was shocked by looking at the broken mushrooms while and I kept walk.
After long, long walk I found a lot of new fairy tale mushrooms spots under the walk way trees!
People believe we can find fairy tales only in a story book, but I think we can find them in regular life too.

a bird house on a really high place - what kind of birds will live?

Living in a forest

I took a trip to visit my friends in Vancouver island.
They are a couple just moved there from Vancouver, are living in a woods close to a beach.

The otter caught and ate a seagul!

It was a wild life drama(?), a shocking matter.

My friend makes good Japanese homestyle meals always!

Beautiful fresh eggs from a local farmer.

These logs are for their stove, maden by her husband.Amazing!