a pretty woman

She is a pretty and beautiful woman and my old and most precious friend. The photo was taken in a tavern when we had a drinking together with members of photography club. She is also one of members of the club.

I think that she is a photogenic woman who can be fit well as a model of portrait. So I asked her to be my photo model, but she told to me in this way bashfully, "I'd prefer taking photos, but I'd hesitate to be a model."

Probably, I think, contrary to my intentions, she made a misunderstanding that she was asked to be a nude model.

I took this photo before she noticed, and I have uploaded her photo to flickr without her consent. I don't know whether she complains me or not.

The white hydrangea which blooms in a park

I could hear the lovely voice of a little girl who was in high spirits. She was speaking something in her father's arms. It was a heartwarming scene for me.

Thank you for your viewing my photos this week too.
I hope you have a splendid weekend and great week ahead!

The place where a Japanese Primrose blooms gregariously

The image shows a part of the place where a Japanese primrose grows in colonies.
This site is located on the western end of Chuzenji lakeside and in about 10 minutes walk from a jetty of Senjyu-ga-hama.
Flowering time of this plant at this place is from middle of June to end of June every year.


a jetty of Senjyu-ga-hama

a jetty of Senjyu-ga-hama

The place, where called Senjyu-ga-hama, is located in the western end of the Lake Chuzenji that is at an altitude of 1,265 meters. A mountain covered with clouds to be seen in the front is Mt. Nantai(2486m).　Hikers are waiting a returning ship after enjoying of their hiking and flower viewing.
As for flower viewing, there is the place where a Japanese primrose grows in colonies near here as shown in below.

Lake Yunoko, popular place for lure fishing, but ???

This lake is the lure fishing birthplace in Japan with Lake Chuzenji.
After Japan opened the gate to foreign countries in the beginning of the Meiji period, the summer villas of foreign embassies, like the UK, the US, Italy and others, were opened in the surrounding of the Lake Chuzenji.
Many diplomats with their family stayed there every summer and they enjoyed fishing and boating or sailing for pleasure as they did in their home country.
And also, they taught the lure fishing to Japanese people. Further, they imported  rainbow trouts from their home country, and those trouts were discharged or released into the lake.  Therefore, the lake Chuzenji and Yunoko became most popular place for trout fishing in Japan until now.
However, unfortunately, anglers are requested to release their catches, because fishes are still contaminated with radioactivity caused by melt downed nuclear power plant of Tokyo Electric Power Company, Inc. in March 2011.
Nonetheless many anglers still enjoy lure fishing in this lake.

The heavenly place where the primroses bloomed gregariously.

The photo has been originally uploaded by Yuichi Momma's photostream in flickr.

I visited such a heavenly place on one day of a break in the rainy season. The place is at an altitude of about 1,300 meters, and the site is located at the Lake Chuzenji side in the Oku-Nikko.  The place cannot be accessed by own cars. Because, the area is limited to vehicles in order to prevent natural destructions. We have to park own cars in a parking lot where is about 10 miles away from that area, and we have to take the hybrid bus of the lower pollution performs shuttle service.