Partial Solar Eclipse

It was very interesting to see the sun became thinner and thinner.

The eclipse of the sun .... the great show of the universe!

From here, around Tokyo, we could see Partial solar eclipse.
About three quarters of the sun was hiding behind the moon.

Though the missing 3/4 of the sun, you couldn't say it was darker.
The brightness didn't change at all. It was amazing.

The next total solar eclipse will be in 2035.
What an exciting thing is that we can see it near Tokyo.

Isn't that GREAT????

You don't tell me how old I will be!!!!

baby swallows and a new pigeon family

It was last summer that a couple of swallows made a nest and brought up 4 young ones.

This summer, they...the same couple? ....came again and have their big family.

This couple already brought up 4 young birds and the youngsters lest their nest in May.
After the young ones left, mother swallow hadn't left and had sat still in the nest.
She had been holding next other eggs!

This is the photo of the second youngsters I took this morning.

They are so cute!

Here is another photo of another bird story.

I found a couple of pigeon was making a nest in my garden.
A female one is sitting all days but I don't see any eggs.

Birds are very careful animal.

Swallow is known very well to have their nests at the places where people live.

But pigeons are different.....

It is a great opportunity to see the nature in front of my eyes, isn't it??

Summer festival

Two-days summer festival "Gion-matsuri" is held in my city.

I went to the festival with my family.
It was very hot and humid yesterday.

First, my daughter played scooping goldfish.

She scooped NINE tiny red goldfish.

Gee.....that's too much...

Then, I bought a drink .... a beer.

This is the Japanese beer brand KIRIN.

Gooood!!!

This is "o-mikoshi" a portable shrine.

There were some of them, and they were carried by a lot of people.
They walked very slowly with shouting rhythmically.

Too many people to move forward.
At last, we couldn't move and felt a bit dangerous with kid.
We decided to go home.

It was fun but......tired.