While it has become the height of spring in Tokyo with the cherry flowers in full blossoms, it is still the beginning of the season here, just like the Japanese song "Poem of Early Spring" says: "Is the spring only in calendar entry? How cold the wind still is!". While the spring can be feld in the sun beam, the winds coming over the snow-covered peaks of Yatsugatake Mountains and Southern Japan Alps are still cold.
In our garden, however, you can find lots of signs of spring.
A view of the garden from east to west. Daffodils are blooming in the flowerbed.
A view of the garden from the opposite direction. Near the deck of the house, small daffodils (near) and hyacinth are blooming thanks to the heat stored and radiated by the concrete base of the wooden deck. Christmas roses have started blooming.
The mountains of Southern Japan Alps, which can be seen from our second house, are still covered with snow. The range of peaks seen in the left of the photo are Ho-oh Sanzan (Three Peaks of Phoenix), the white peak at immediate right of the range is Kita-dake Mountain, the second highest moutain in Japan after Mount Fuji, and the peak scarcely showing over the cloud is Kai-Komagatake Mountain.
The easter half of the land in our second house is being constructed as approach shot range of golf, and several different kinds of lawns are cultivated. Through the light brown lawn leaves of winter, new green leaves have started to grow. I am planning to use this area as a "Dog Run" this summer.
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