Monday, August 01, 2011

Summer festivals

Many local areas of Tsukuba had summer festivals this weekend.

I didn't go to any, and unfortunately my neighborhood doesn't have a festival. But I could enjoy just a couple of minutes of fireworks from somewhere. I don't know where it is, but every year I can see some fireworks from my bedroom window.

This year they truly only had a few minutes - so just a few rockets of fireworks. I guess that is because of the disasters. Anyway, my husband, Kuro and I enjoyed looking at them from the window. Maybe Kuro was just looking outside and wasn't really watching the fireworks! And Dusty was playing somewhere in the house by himself - he's not a "Japanese" cat :)



Sunday, July 31, 2011

Cicadas near my house

The past few days some cicadas have been "singing" near my house. One type has a low sound that is just "bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz" but the cicada in this photo sings REALLY loudly. If you watch the video below, you can hear them.

Sorry, but the video is just a picture of the bamboo grove across from my house. I took the photograph yesterday - right next to my veranda. But today when I wanted to take the video, I couldn't find any cicadas, just hear them :)