My fiddleheads of Rabbit Foot Fern is waking up, and my little kitten Nicky is sleeping, taking a long nap everyday. Who knows what he's doing during the night.....

Geranium

Very hard to get a right color of Red flower!!!

Easter Sunday

Feel the Spring Rain!

It was raining on Easter Sunday (yesterday). Just because of it was Easter, we decided it was the first Spring Rain. Tina wanted to go out and feel the spring rain, she had fun getting wet all over. Actually, still a little cold to get wet....

イースターサンデーは雨でした。北の方では雪が降ったりしていて、変なイースターです。春とともにイースターになるものと思っていたのに。だから、まだ少し寒いのに、イースターだから春の雨、と外に走りにでたティナです。

Easter

Easter came early this year. It's still March! "Easter" sounds "April" to me..! These are the eggs my daughter and I had painted the past years, we will do the "egg painting" tomorrow.

Happy Easter!
イースターは大抵4月になってからなのに、今年は３月、しかもあちこちまだ寒い３月のうちにやってきてしまいました。毎年、エッグペインティングをして、力作をとってあります。あした、またやろうかな。

Hyacinth / 2nd Day

When I entered my living room this morning, oh my God, it smelled like Heaven! 50% bloomed.
I took some photos, and Nicky was sitting beside me, interested in the soil!

Hyacinth

Hyacinths are at the stores! I bought one purple, still all tight buds. I will take pictures everyday to see how fast they grow.

Saint Paulia

Is there four seasons in Florida? We have flowers all around the year, trees are kind of always green, we have warm winter, we wear T-shirts all the time, we don't need a thick jacket.......but there is spring here.

Oak trees have flowers now. Maple trees have flowers and samaras now. Ducks will have chicks soon. Yellow trees started to bloom as if they know it's March. Local strawberries arrived. Grasses are greener.....

And my Saint Paulia always have most flowers in Spring. I have a collection of Saint Paulias in my Kitchen window. The original purple one is the strongest and have flowers through the year. This pink one, wine red one....blooms only in spring. How do they know Spring has come? How do they know spring from a warm winter?

フロリダに四季はあるのか？花は何かしら一年中咲いてるし、木はまあいつも緑だし。冬は暖かい。それでも、春という時期になると、どんぐりの木に花がついてる。カエデも花が咲き，種ができてる。アヒルだかカモだかはもうすぐヒヨコを連れて歩く。３月の黄色い花はカレンダーを見てるみたいに３月になると途端に咲き始める。フロリダのイチゴが出回ってきた。草がグッと緑に見える・・・・・・

私のキッチンのセントポーリアも、純種のムラサキのは特に強くてぽつぽつ一年中咲いてるとはいえ、このピンクとワインレッドのは、春にしか咲きません。暖かい冬と春はどう違う？どうして春が来たってわかるんだろう。

Windows

1)Taken from outside at night. I like the light leaks through the curtains, makes nice silhouette and displays some kind of happy feeling with warm color. 2)Taken from inside at daytime, of course, Nicky loves to sit there. He can't jump up to the window yet, I helped him there. He can jump down whenever he wants.

Gulls

We drove to Lake Okeechobee again (the last time, November 07) to see if the water level is any higher. Not much..... There was a big puddle (lagoon?) and a few kind of gulls, many of them were there. They all were facing the same direction, toward the wind, why??? Then one gull showed me the reason why (upper photo), you got it?!They hate that "bad hair"!

オキーチョビー湖にまた行きました。水位が下がっていて問題になっています。湖の周りのところ、潟というか砂州というか、に何種類かのカモメがイ～ッパイいましたが、どれもみんな風に向かって立っています。何故？？と思ってたら、一匹のアマノジャクが、どうしてかを教えてくれました。（上の写真）ね、髪の乱れがいやなの！

Our New Kitty, Nicky

We found this cat at a Pet shop and we were just clicked. He might not have the cutest kitty face, but his friendly attitude and playfulness makes this cat very pretty.

We adopted him from Broward County Animal Care and Regulation Division on 3/12/08.

He turned to a timid cat in the new enviroment, then explore and explore the whole house and started to play crazily with my daughter. He already found his comfy spot.

この子はペットショップにいましたが、ここブロワード郡動物保護施設の捨て猫斡旋プログラムで、アダプト代が＄７５だけでした。小さな鳥だって数百ドルするのに。ちょっと斜視気味で、かわいい顔のペット第一位ではないかもしれないけれど、なつっこくていつまでもなでてもらいたくて、見せるもの何でも遊びたくて・・・というかわいらしさにコロッと参ってしまいました。

うちに来てはじめはおどおど隠れて、次には家中探検、それからティナと走り回って遊び始めました。次の日にはもう、お気に入りのスポットを見つけて、緊張がとけた疲れでぐっすり昼寝！

Pansy

I tend to give my plants too much water. So some plants which hate water die in my house.
But this one, Small Pansy, Viola, seems to like a lot of water. I thought it would die, because it didn't have any new flowers after the first one or two, but suddenly have six, seven flowers in these 2-3 days! It maybe waited for the Big Chill we had to go away.
花の水やり、私はどうも水をやりすぎてしまう傾向にあるようで、水のキライな花たちはうちでは生き残れないようです・・・・この小さいパンジーは水が好きで、ちょっとやらなかったらすぐにクタッとなってしまいます。最初の花のあと全然花をつけなかったのでだめかと思ってたら、フロリダの寒波が過ぎたら突然、たくさん花をつけました。

Miami Metro Zoo

　　　天にましますわれらが父よ、願わくば・・・・とお祈りをしているタイガーです。

Tiger is always our most favorite animal in this house. When we arrived at the Zoo yesterday, all three tigers were taking a nap under the tree, no movements.... but when we came back to the tigers later, they are awake, walking and running, praying(upper photo), licking his fur.....etc, we enjoyed a lot! They really are big cats!

Tassel Flower

While ago, I posted "Florida Tassel Flower" photo, and now they are ready to take off! It was windy when I found them like these, they started to fly away while I was aiming them! So shiny in the Sun and so pretty!
何日か前の小さい雑草の花が、フワフワになって飛び出そうとしていました。見つけてこの写真を撮ってた日は風が強くて、カメラを構えているうちに飛んでいってしまったり、日が急に翳ってキラキラが写らなかったり、風のせいでまあ揺れること揺れること、フォーカスに一苦労でした。しかも球体なのでこっちにピントが合えばあっちに合わず、ちっちゃいのにずいぶん困らせてくれた綿毛でした。