We’re murmuring. This year fall is short. We had a day with more than 25°C temperature in early November. To the beach! Then, last weekend the max temp was around 12°C. Hello Christmas. If autumn had about 3 months, we could have enjoyed the changes of our forest in a more slow and relaxed way. Sad. Still the leaves are turning their colors in the mountains of Kanagawa. In Yokohama, the change has begun. Once it has started, the end it will come very soon …
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| Neoshirakia
japonica, probably the most beautiful tree in autumn for Japanese mountain forest. It’s Japanese endemic species. With some reason not many people know this tree … they show their bright red for just few weeks in remote mountains … |
Not only we, but also some flowers might have been confused these days. Or, is it natural to find such baffled ones in forest? The other day, when we checked the autumn vegetation along Hadano Forestry Road 秦野林道, we met a pretty spotted bellflower, flowering. Er, excuse me? Do you think it is June?
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| What are you doing here now? |
Then, in another slope we were welcomed by elegant Rhododendron wadanum, also flowering. Oh yeah, they welcome us every late spring to early summer in Tanzawa mountains. But … are you alright doing this in mid-November?
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| Hmmmm … the photo is out of focus … sorry. |
Flowers are for making seeds to continue their species for generations. Both flowers we’ve found in November are dependent on insects for pollination. But could they find helpers? In late autumn, the number of bugs is also small, of course. Last summer we found two huge nests of wasps beneath Nakazawa Bridge 中沢橋 of the forestry road. They were terrifyingly buzzing. Now in November, everything was quiet. Wasps were carnivorous so if they are quiet, their meals, aka other bugs that can help pollination for flowers, must be scarce. Poor flowers. They are pretty. They must have spent huge energy to be beautiful. But all would be in vain … Sad.
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| Quiet nests in November |
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to throw away;
a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
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| Daurian
redstart. From Siberia, they come here to spend their winter. |
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