和泉リサイクル環境公園での撮影です
向日葵の最盛時期には遅かったのですが、その分人が少なく撮影しやすかったです。向日葵を見ながら携帯で撮影する女の人と椰子の木陰でベンチに座る年配の男の人の対比が面白くスナップしました。

立川市 昭和記念公園で撮影。日差しが強い日でしたが、その分木漏れ日が綺麗でした。

大阪府吹田市、万博記念公園日本庭園は蓮の花の美しい場所です。角度によってはうまく岡本太郎氏の太陽の塔や、エキスポシティの観覧車や公園のオブジェを入れて、額に飾られた一枚の絵のように撮影できます。

I stopped by the Jujo Ginza Shopping Arcade over the obon weekend and managed to take these two photos.

The first one was taken at Nanushi no Taki Park (名主の滝公園).
It was kind of an interesting place to find in Tokyo. It felt really removed from the rest of the city and its surroundings and had a completely different atmosphere from even just a block away. Once you got inside the park itself it seemed a lot quieter and it was quite cool as well. It's completely surrounded by greenery and the water must help keep the area cool. There's a walking course around the inside of the park but I opted against walking it as there were a fair number of mosquitoes biting at me. The waterfall itself was quite nice though.

The next spot was just before the shopping arcade near a railroad crossing. Thought it was interesting so I took a quick photo of it.

I believe the first one is GeGeGe no Kitaro, a famous anime, and everyone knows Doraemon

鬼怒川付近の公園にて。

夏の雲と川のせせらぎ

Went down to Takamatsu over the 3 day weekend last week. It was the first time either one of us had been to Shikoku before and it was a lot of fun. I'm surprised it's not talked about more, as there's so much stuff to do. We stayed near Takamatsu pretty much the whole time and we still didn't get to visit every place that we wanted to go.

The first day mostly consisted of Ritsurin Park.

The park (garden) itself was quite large and there was a lot of beautiful sights to see. We really wanted to go on the boat ride throughout the park's pond, but unfortunately it started to rain just a tiny bit and they closed the boat for the rest of the day, just before we arrived...☔️

Even still we had a lot of fun walking around the park. There were a lot of koi and turtles swimming in the pond too.
We stopped by a small cafe-like building inside the park and i got an ice cream float and she got a coffee.
In front of the shop one of the custodians came by with a big bucket of fish food and created a feeding frenzy amongst the koi. I'm pretty sure I saw a single catfish in there as well. After we finished our drinks we climbed to one of the best viewing spots in the park which had a really amazing view of the bridge and the pond. You can see the people on the boat we didn't get to ride too lol?

The one building shown in photo 9 was actually a tea house where I think you could try traditional tea ceremony and eat sweets as well, but they also seemed to offer just a normal tea drinking experience as well.
We decided not to try it, but if you like tea ceremony it looked quite nice.

近くの公園で撮りました。日差しが強くて夏を感じました。

#夏
#フォトコンテスト

三重県四日市市のシドニー公園で撮影しました。
夏っぽい写真が気に入ってます?

福岡県
平塚川添遺跡公園の蓮の華。

Had a nice relaxing golden week and to finish it off I saw some carp streamers billowing in the wind at some park along the river near Kita-senju. Had some really nice weather the past couple days too, which was great. Hope everyone had a nice holiday/vacation!

美しい世界遺産の富士山と小富士芝桜
山梨県富士河口湖町富士本栖湖リゾートにて

都立小金井公園のオオタカ。JR中央線の最寄り駅から新宿まで20分足らずの所にあり沢山の利用者もいる場所ながら、しっかり豊かな自然が存在しています。

神奈川県久里浜花の国のネモフィラです。朝陽で夜露が輝いていました。

市民の憩いの場所、里山の趣が残る公園です。レンゲ（ゲンゲ）畑が満開となるこの時期は沢山のミツバチが飛び回っています。いつまでも残したい日本の懐かしい風景です。

鶴見緑地公園でiPhone撮影

コスモスと背景の夕焼けが凄い綺麗だったので思わず撮った1枚です。

日本の春といったら「桜」が代表的だと思います。
いつぞかに桜の木を植えてくれた人のおかげで、高崎の街中でもキレイな夜桜が撮れました。

近所の公園

鶴見緑地公園の日本庭園にて。松と枝垂れ桜が目に鮮やかな中、アオサギがくつろいでいます。この鳥は出会えると幸運が訪れるとも言われています。ご覧いただいた皆さまに、幸運が舞い降りますように。

大阪市東住吉区、サッカーチームセレッソ大阪の本拠地、長居公園の桜。広い園内にはたくさんの桜の木があり、春は夢の中にいるような美しさです。

Decided to go back to Gyoda again this weekend.

We had such a good time last time we went we decided we wanted to check out the cherry blossoms this spring. Managed to visit some really nice places.

We originally wanted to use the rental bicycles that they have in front of the station but we got there past noon and all of them were taken unfortunately.
Fortunately for us, it ended up getting a bit colder later on so it actually worked out.

We got lucky as there was a really convenient sightseeing bus that rolled through the station to all of the major places in the city every 45 minutes or so.

We checked out the cherry blossoms at Gyoda Castle and they had the Hanachozu (花手水, pots of flowers floating in water). We were able to see a few of these throughout the city which was nice.
They also had traditional umbrellas on display in a few areas around the castle which was really pretty.

After Gyoda Castle we visited the Sakitama Burial Mounds which had some really beautiful views of the cherry blossoms.
There was also a flock of herons flying around the area but I wasn't able to get a very good photo of any of them.
Luckily we got some great photos of the cherry blossoms and the main mound and had a really enjoyable time.

We also stopped by Suijo Park and there were some food stalls in the area, but we got there when everything was just about closed so we only got to see a few of the vendors.
We managed to get a really tasty lemonade and a latte though. Both tasted really good.
Surprisingly there were a lot of cosplayers at the park.
We probably saw like 20-30 people cosplaying using the bridges and cherry blossoms in the area.

On the way back to the station we managed saw this river during the bus ride and so we backtracked a little bit after getting to the station (about 5 minutes walking) and got to enjoy some really phenomenal views of the cherry blossoms along the river.
There were hardly any people there as well, surprisingly.

Overall it was a really awesome time!

歴博の窓から望む屏風桜

桜と富士山
そろそろ富士山の麓の桜に咲いてますので楽しみです。
山梨県富士吉田市忠霊塔の公園に撮影した。

大阪市東住吉区、今川沿い。四季折々美しい花が咲乱れる美しい場所です。また信楽狸の置物や、瓦など和のアイテムが置かれ、絵になる写真スポットです。春は桜満開で、しだれ桜や白い桜もあり、お散歩しながら日本の四季を存分に感じられます。無料で楽しめるのもうれしいですよね。

群馬県にある「境御嶽山自然の森公園」で撮った彼岸花。
ずっと撮りたいと思ってた彼岸花を、公園の中を歩き回って色んなところから撮りまくってました笑。
撮った中でも自分でよく撮れたな思った1枚です！

淡路島 花さじきの早咲きの菜の花です。
暖かい晴れの日で気持ち良かったです。

京都の京都府立植物園でスノードロップに囲まれた夕陽に照らされた水仙

大田黒公園で撮った紅葉です。
池の反射がとても美しかったです。

春が確実に歩んできているのでしょう。

日本の秋の行事と言えば、紅葉狩り！真っ赤に色付いた紅葉の下を仲良く散歩するカップルの姿に癒やされました！

Was walking past a park in Arakawa the other day and came across this interesting statue.

I think the name is read as Honda Takatomo (本田 貴侶) but it was difficult to find any information. I kept finding stuff showing the same statue but instead of "聖なるもののリピドー" they all show "聖なるもののリビドー"

I'm not sure what the differences are though.
Perhaps there are multiple statues in different locations?
All the ones I saw referred to this statue in Arakawa though so maybe there's a misprint or something?

Also I'm not sure what "リピドー" or "リビドー" means, but if anyone has any idea about what the statue's meaning is I'd love to hear it!

Either way it's a nice looking statue. I always enjoy finding things like this around different parts of Japan, they really add to the atmosphere of the city.