Japan was very cold this winter. The cherry trees slept well. They woke up and started to bloom.   We sometimes have a picnic under the cherry blossoms. It is fun to enjoy eating foods, drinking Sake and singing Karaoke.           The cherry tree

There are a lot of bottles in my kitchen. They have various shapes and colors. Soy sauce,ketchup,wine,vinegar… I can’t throw away these glass bottles after using. Because I love them very much. So,I sometimes use them again as preserve container.   I have a small vegetable garden. I grow potatoes,

Kitchen Inspiration   Thank you Regina! Kitchen is very comfortable place for me. I like spending there a long time, cooking over making quilts. It brings some ideas for my arts.   I put a lot of stuff on the fridge door with the magnets. Picture cards, recipes and schedule

  “Thought of thousand things fill me with melancholy as I gaze upon the moon, but autumn`s dejection comes not to me alone.”                            By Oue senri                            Peter macMillan   This melancholy lyric poem is ”百人一首“ （One Hundred Poets One Poem Each） It`s very old collection of Japanese poem. But now

  In Japan during the Heian Period about 800 years ago, people wrote short lyrical poems of love. A round moon, a half moon and even a crescent moon, all filled with mystery ,inspired much poetry. For example ,there were 100 poems made by one hundred people. The soft moonlight

I was excited by the second prompt by Lisa, entitled “Touch”. I thought about the touch that human beings have with the ground. I once watched a beautiful ballerina standing on just one toe. All her weitght on one toe looked so difficult, yet so shapely. This pose must be

            Karol gave us a very interesting challenge. I kept thinking and thinking. Then, a wind bell rang under the eaves outside   of my house. In Japan,we often hang a glass wind bell during the hot and humid summer season. We feel cool with the