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Dayflowers that bloom in the summer morning and fade by early afternoon.
The fleeting but vivid petals that are eye-catching in the grass look like firefly somehow.

Recently, my 3-year-old daughter picks up wildflowers from the garden and says “Mommy, I want to decorate these!!”

I hope that you are well in the lingering summer heat.

I had been building my own nest.
No, to describe correctly, I had been brushing on paint to my nest.

Moving from Kamakura to the foot of Yatsugatake and creating a new base has been a big project for my family over the last few years.
I met people who built (had been building) their own houses steadily here.
Although I had a longing for such a house making, it was actually difficult for us, but nevertheless, what we chose to do from what we could, was to do “painting”.

I received an announcement from Etsuko Watanabe and Yukiko Funaki from Showa village, Fukushima Prefecture that they opened a reservation-based shop called “Watashifune*”.

A power of “being clustered”

A strength of “being independent”

On a refreshing sunny Sunday, I participated in a workshop held by Ms. Lene Degett with my daughter.
She is an artist based in Bornholm, Denmark where blessed with abundant nature, and she also hosts an art school there.
Oomurasaki Nature Park in Hokuto-shi, Yamanashi Prefecture has a vast forest where the national butterfly Great Purple Emperor lives.
Using the forest as a set, Lene made the sea floating in the forest called “Blue Dream in Nature”
in front of everyone.

The light changed around the end of March.
Mt. Yatsugatake which had been seen sharply with a clear sky seems to be wearing a thin veil in a soft sunlight.

Tap-tap, tap-tap
How grateful I feel to have time when just the sound of loom resounds in the room.