Cosmos Flower Fields in Utsunomiya

I went to Takanezawa Green Park to see cosmos flowers in early morning today. It’s foggy and slightly raining. I think that the top season of full bloom has gone past, but still beautiful enough to worth visiting. I took some pictures there.

Since a part of the flower fields was allocated as free picking area, ten to twenty people were looking for their favorite branches and some were carrying them back.

Don’t you think they are beautiful, do you?

Clear Sky in Igashira Park

There are two tennis-club tournaments in Mohka city annually. Rina, Hiroto, Hikaru, Takeru and I attended the autumn tournament both today and one week ago on Sundays.

It was a very fine day today. I enjoyed playing tennis and seeing autumn scenery around Igashira Park where the tournament was held.

Result of the tournament of our team was not good, but I spent precious time with my club members. I could completely forget about my busy daily work while I was staying the park.

To tell the truth, the project of my work is now on the final phase. We are very busy this October. Some of my colleagues, rather younger workers, had to work today even on Sunday.
After coming back from Igashira Park, I called my colleagues to ask if the work was going well.

Contrary to the result of the tournament, the work of my project seemed to be going well.
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The First YouTuber Friend Comes Home

Chris, one of my YouTub friends came home all the way from Florida, U.S.A. We had dinner with him a week ago on Monday. It was the first time for me to meet YouTuber from foreign country, though I have YouTube friends who used to live in Japan and went back to their own countries.

Chris traveled Japan for two weeks from Sept. 27th to Oct 11th. He was so busy that we couldn’t find a day to meet on weekends.
I rushed back home after work on last Monday, went for picking Chris up to Utsunomiya station then came home several minutes before seven o’clock.

Since I have to get up early the next day for work, he only stayed home for a few hours with us.
Even though time was limited, we had very meaningful time together chatting about his friends, family, work, hometown, travel and so on. Thanks Chris.

Today is the national holiday of Health-Sports Day designated in 1966 to commemorate the opening day of the Tokyo Olympics.
I took a rest whole day today except shopping for our bunny’s food.
To my sad, on my way back home I lost six thousands yen (roughly sixty US dollars) due to my carelessness. I should forget about it soon. Sigh.

Party For My Patent Prize

Second time from four months ago, I had a party at a restaurant called Izakaya Nipponkai to celebrate my patent rewards with my family members.
This time, I was awarded the first prize of the term from January to June in the year of 2008 in the optical division of my company, CANON.

Congratulations to me! Y(^^)Y