BANIN-TEN,

exhibition of NIPPON HANGAIN 2009, was opened at Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, UENO last weekend. It is becoming our annual event since last year.

These are my mother-in-law's works this year. She got right of seed this year. Congratulations!!

It was typical day of rainy season in Japan, but we family had good time there.

HAKAMATAKI Campground

We've been swamped with our new home planing, and should have no time for leisure on this weekend.

But we already had special plan with our daughter's friend's family to go camping together. They booked HAKAMATAKI campground for us.

It was located in the forest and close to HEDA harbor, west part of IZU Peninsula. A little over 1 hour drive from our house.

These tree made good shade for us.







They were trying to catch the fish by their net.







I could have a time for fly fishing at small stream.







Many rainbow trouts were caught by peacock curved shank parachute.

Small but beautiful wild AMAGO trout.

KOMOCHI_MANNENGUSA; One of stone-crop

MURASAKI KATABAMI; Purple Oxalis

The next day, we went down to the sea, HEDA harbor.






They tried SUIKA-WARI, watermelon bust, first time. Its taste was also good.

We enjoyed early summer of west IZU Peninsula so much

I would like to test

this hen hackle spinner at OSHINO though...

We had a barbecue party

with U-family by KANOGAWA river today. It was so nice sunny day.

We talked mainly about our Boise life. Hope they'll have good time there.

AKATSUMEKUSA; Purple perlwort

Unknown; need to be identified

Unexpectedly,

our new home building plan got started.

We didn't make any decision yet though, thinking of it seriously.

It is a kind of hard work sometime, but fun time also.

Hope we'll have good one soon! I made up my mind to said good-bye to fishing for a while...

Flowers in early summer

Since we bought picture book of flowers also, let me identify the followings around KADOIKE park.

AZISAI; Hydrangea

HARUZION; Philadelphia Daisy

Unknown; couldn't find it on the picture book. If you know, please tell me.

KINSHIBAI

YAMABOUSHI; One of Cornel family

GAKUAZISAI; One of Hydrangea

SHIMOTSUKE; Meadow sweet

MURASAKI KATABAMI; Purple Oxalis

By the way, she did SAKAAGARI, forward upward circling, very well today. Good job!

Hatch on the wall today

was as follows.

SHIROHARA_KOKAGEROU mayfly's female dun, most famous one of baties species in Japan.

And its male dun also.

FUTABA_KOKAGEROU mayfly's female dun.

Looks like hatch itself has been getting activated recently. They must call me to the river.

Grown up

ASAGAO, morning glory.

HIMAWARI, sunflower.

Both of them were grown up well.

We made a quick sketch of them this morning. Doing something together with kids is fun and good thing for us both, I believe.

OZIGISOU,

, sensitive plant, was added to her plant family today. She named it 'OZIKO' with much love.

Hopefully we'll see its germination about two weeks later.

UDO plant

is one of famous edible wild plants in Japan.

Curryman picked some for us during ITOSHIRO fishing trip yesterday.

Its TENPURA was so yummy!

My wife and I really enjoyed it. For our daughter, a little bit bitter likely.

Rock Climbing; It's my turn

As I wrote before, my daughter loves to do rock-climbing so much. Since she did it so good last time, I promised her to try it together next time.

So the time has come, it is my turn!

I didn't have any confidence for durability of my muscular strength, so I kept climbing without hesitation.

The feeling on the top was just...

Scary!

But I was satisfied to show my daughter my back today. If we have another chance, I would like to try it more slowly and carefully. Which means I must do more strength training to do that...

Fishing Trip to ITOSHIRO

Our friend ICHIGOU invited us, curryman and me, to ITOSHIRO Catch & Release section today.
Hope this morning swallow give us a luck.





USUBA_AGEHA butterfly. I showed this pic to my daughter later, because new to her.








We left NUMAZU about 4:30 AM and arrived there around 9AM. Curryman was checking today's river condition first.




We can find many fishes easily.
The fishermen’s cooperative of this river never released adult fish, which means those fishes are reproducing by themselves. What a healthy river it is!





ICHIGOU and S-san helped us a lot, as experts of this river.
Since I didn't have many experiences at Japanese mountain stream yet, every their know-how was new to me.





At first pool hole, I got this IWANA trout by spent dun pattern.

Not bad start.





Cream sparkle dun as ICHIGOU's advise gave me this beautiful one. It worked so well , definitely today's hit fly.






Beautiful stream and good folks surround fresh green.





This dark dun (one of MADARA mayfly species?) was in third one's stomach. I was surprised by the number of aquatic insects species there, when I checked the website later.

I could catch 4 fishes only before the evening, because of many mistakes... Sorry, S-san.

Can you see many spinners in the sky on right pic? These FUTASUJI_MONKAGEROU mayflies were a sign of great evening's start.

I added 5 more fishes in the evening by huge white parachute. Lots of thanks for ICHIGOU & S-san, it was so great day for me.




As an addition, KIIRO_KAWAKAGEROU mayfly's male spinner on vending machine. New to me.