我家の庭梅 - the Prunus-japonica-Thunb

このところ、急に春めいて・・・。日中は暖かいですが、朝と夜は、かなり気温が下がる・・・。体調管理も、かなりやっかいですね。 2日ほど前に、庭の庭梅が満開になってきましたので、久々にキャプチャ♪ 庭梅はバラ科の植物と、ご存知でしたか？私、知らなかったんですよ（笑)

これは、かなりマクロで撮影したもの。写真撮影も楽しいものです。(*^^*)
そういえば、再びヒーロー・アーツ社のウィークリーチャレンジにエントリーしてみました。画像は、下の記事に貼っていますので、興味をお持ちの方は、ご覧になってくださいネ。 今回のテーマは、「シェイプ」。通常の形と違ったグリーティングカード・その他を制作というもの。 なかなか思い浮かばないテーマなだけに、最初のうち少々考えて、「今回はパスしよう・・・」と思っていたのですが、締切日の朝、急に思い立ち、油彩パレットに、絵の具と筆・・・というイメージで作ってみました。
This photo shows you the tree named 'the Prunus-japonica-Thunb', belongs the Rosacese. The diameter of this flower about 1/2". I took this pic a few days ago in our garden.

Happy New Year!!!

2009AD has come!

It's slightly covered with snow since yesterday night. We are happy to see the beautiful snowy scene in our house garden.Today we're going to have the family party, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow the guests will come.

In full bloom (Asian Holly)

I found the flowers of Asian Holly in our garden the other day.

This is a closeup. Tiny white flowers are in full bloom. :)

A story changes..., I don't understand why this blog cannot access to 'edit' directly??? I always found my mistakes after publishing the post. :(

A year has passed...

 A year has passed since my mother passed away.
This day, a year ago, there were so many yellow flowers here and there in the garden, just like to see my mother off. I love this flowers since my childfood, because they begin to bloom in the late autumn, the season there's a few kind of flowers.  We call this 'Tsuwabuki' in Japanese, the botanical name is 'farfugium japonicum', I hear.

While I reminded my mom, and I came to be a little sentimental, an ant appeared on the petal (the bigger flower on the right).

 And the bee was coming to another flower! I could capture them!

If possible, I want to meet you and see your smiling again, Mom.

Osmanthus heterophyllus (Asian Holly)

I found the Asian Holly tree in our garden has new leaves today. I surprised to see it in October.

I hear that the botanical name of this tree is 'Osmanthus heterophyllus'. 'heterophyllus'!? Oh! I cannot pronounce it correctly. :(