In this spring, my daughter finished a nursery school and had embarked on the new stage to start an elementary school.
The joy to see her grow into a school girl, and the loneliness to realise the end of her babyhood whom I was able to hold completely in my arms.
The colour of Sakura* which is pink mixed with grey, perfectly matches with my mixed feelings.
The tranquility before my family wakes up.
Such a new year’s morning with nothing special but just as usual.
May the year 2018 bring you a lot of happiness and smiles.
I gave a Christmas present to the children in a nursery school.
When I say that it is terribly cold here and look up, I think that it is still mild here.
Akiko-san and Miasa-san whom I work together on research of plants by the name of “Herbarium of the senses”.
We three and the respective families went to Hinohara, Nishi-Tama district together to stay at a mountain villa called “Mitou Sanso”.
In the very first morning of the day when it became December, I went to a studio of indigo dyeing artist who lived in the same town to dye indigo.
Something I found in the woods nearby.
I was named after this: “Mayu” (= cocoon).
There is land purchased this year at the back of an unpaved path which only one car can barely pass through.
When the growth of the plants which had been very powerful from spring to summer calmed down, I started to mow the plants of the land about 20 minutes away from my house by car.
