the end of summer

An overblown sunflower is a sign that the summer is coming to the end.

Spring has gone and Summer has come in Okinawa

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

Sky, clouds, water and sandy beach, all of these were color of summer, and , sea breeze was so refreshing.

I stayed in Okinawa few days to enjoy the festival called Ryukyu KAIEN-SAI （琉球海炎祭） which was held in Ginowan city (宜野湾市） last Saturday.
It is a summer festival which is to be held earliest in Japan. And, the summer season of Okinawa is to be started by this festival. The most attractive event in the festival was fireworks.
I enjoyed that fireworks of 10,000 shots drew beautiful floral patterns in the night sky.

A scene of the water hyacinth field with train

A scene of the water hyacinth field with train, originally uploaded by photoholic's images.

An express train named Spacia, connecting Asakusa (Tokyo) and Nikko or Kinugawa-Onsen, passes through the common water hyacinth field.

taken by Canon EOS 40D with EF-S17-85mm 1:4-5.6 IS USM, 1/320 f/11 ISO400, Aperture Priority AE