![]() ![]() The location takes full advantage of the tranquil Setouchi to provide a gorgeous ocean view. ![]() Vacation rentals conceived and built nearby Flower Park Urashima. In Spring, cherry blossoms in early Summer, new greenery in Fall, the changing leaves the falls are ever-changing with the seasons. Seeįalling straight down from a height of 50 meters, Fudonotaki Falls is a beautiful sight. The bridge is only traversable on the 4th and 5th of August each year. The main purpose of the shrine is to pray for the health and longevity of children. Just offshore from Mino-cho, Mitoyo is a small island home to Tsushimajinja Shrine. Choose between building A and building B for two different takes on the concept, "Setouchi Hygge." Either way, you'll be living on Seto time. ShiudeĮxperience the serenity of an open sky and peaceful scenery. This blog's my fun-writing: something delightful to do usually late at night.Chichibugahama: Japan's Most Photogenic Beach! Happily married, 20 years as of this spring, to an international airline captain who is a former classically-trained chef, MBA grad and old-school southern gentleman how lucky can a girl get? Okay, wheh.you know all about this blog author now.no questions needed eh?! Additionally, I work part-time merchandising for a national retailor and caregive for a parent fulltime. Festivity is something I enjoy in life with being a former cheerleader, sorority girl, double-debutante and Junior Leaguer.Ĭurrently I've finished up my Masters in Humanities and am looking into PhD programs. I've been in pearls, madras, topsiders and various tartans n' taffeta frocks since I can remember.Ībsolutely love my family, travel, entertaining, outdoor sports especially fly fishing, kayaking, skiing and sport shooting, the arts, antiques, history, literature and a good dose of philosophy here n' there. Small yes, but pleasant and quite full and quite fulfilling in their own ways. Soon, soon I'll be picking up the trowel and gently pushing the old wheelbarrow around but until then, I can look at inspiring paintings of gardens and dream that one day maybe I'll have a garden just a tiny bit like these perhaps.or more likely I'll just have these small sections to keep tending amidst this lawn, woods and marsh fringe. I have left my mother's simple but effective rose bed design intact for obviously sentimental reasons.Įach stage of Spring comes around diligently on our island showcasing beautifully nature's internal clockwork: the marsh turns from its wintery rust hues into vibrant greens, the trumpet and confederate vines begin to give pops of color among the trees and roadsides, muscadine grapes leaves have a deeper green tinge to them and the flowers, oh the flowers. Bushes of red and pink roses are grounded by lantana that gives a riotious burst of yellow and adds its bevvy of butterfly groupies to the more staid and formalized roses framing a concrete bird bath backed by the front double stairway's morning glory vines. While the kitchen garden tends to need a fair amount of tending, conversly, the small rose garden my late mother planted always does best when I actually do very little to it I just trim back the winter's deadening and let it come back to life as it will. Why? Because inevitably there's some last-minute frost or late deep drop in the temperatures or battering burst of wind that would have wrecked havoc with my tender plantings, barely-up seedlings and whatever else I planted out there in the raised beds of our kitchen garden which features a bed for herbs, a bed for vegetables, a bed for cutting flowers and a variety of tomatoes in large pots scattered around. today out here on this island the temperature was 84 degrees and it was so bright blue skies n' sunny, gosh! Um, hmm, IS this actually the month of March still? Wow.Įvery March that comes around, I so very much want to get out there and get gardening!Įvery March or early April I'm so thankful that I didn't.
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