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A New Comer is Miss Window’s Peak

2017.04.04

Cats

Last autumn, a new kitten has joined my mother’s family.
When my mother went to a springwater site at the foot of a hill where she often visited to collect water, the kitten was hobbling.
It looked tiny, thin and so weak.
The place was remote, so probably someone threw it away.
My mother already had two cats, but she couldn’t ignore and brought it home.

 

After then, she took it to a nearby animal hospital for examination and it got treatment for injuries and illness. It is female and its color is black and white but mostly white,
so my mother named it Shiro(white). And her forehead is so-called “window’s peak”.
She recovered completely at the end of last year and she was spayed, so I was relieved.

 

By the way, I was worried about compatibility between Shiro and the two cats have lived already. I have heard that in case of house cats, a new comer became stronger than old ones. More or less, it seems to be true because actually Shiro was jumping and moving vigorously but the old cats looked uncomfortable and they wanted to go out soon.

 

But now finally, they are getting used to each other.
Also, Shiro has been growing and has become tame.
I hope that they would get on well forever. (H.S)

 


Recent Shiro. She was fully grown.
She is friendly and clever.

The wine made from one of the Top 10 Healthy Foods in the World ― The spring of Hakusan Winery ―

2017.04.03

Life in Fukui

白山ワイナリーの葡萄畑

The vineyard of Hakusan Winery (the photograph was taken on March 29th, 2017)

 

When I think about wine, I think about the foreign-grown grapes for making wine such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot Noir and so on. At Hakusan Winery which is the one and only winey in Fukui Prefecture, they make wine from the indigenous Japanese wild grapes.

 

The wild grapes are healthy food that it has been chosen as one of the top 10 healthy foods in the world on TIME. The wild grapes have 10 times more of the amount of polyphenols in regular grapes.

 

The Mt. Haku-san which we see from Fukui City still has snow, and it looks white and bright. As the snow has been melted at vinery of Hakusan Winery which is located at the bottom of a part of Hakusan National Park, Mt. Kyoga-take, people start taking care of the vineyard and making wine for this year.

 

It’s Mt. Arashima-dake at right in the photograph.

The mountains of Okuetsu (eastern Fukui) region can be seen on the way to Hakusan Winery.

It’s Mt. Arashima-dake (chosen as one of the 100 famous mountains in Japan) at right in the photograph.

 

 

T.S

Winter Scenery in Fukui, Japan #3 / Snow Scenery from Train

2017.04.01

Life in Fukui

There have been many days that we can see the sun, the snow has been cleared in almost every parts of Japan and it has been getting warmer.
I would like to look back the winter which has just passed.

 

We had so much snow in Fukui Prefecture from February 10th, 2017 for a few days.

In Fukui, we don’t usually have much snow in February. And if even it does snow, we would not expect so much snow to be piled up. People in Fukui, all of us were taken by surprise with so much snow piled up in such a short time in February.

The areas where snow-removing vehicles did not go into to clear the snow, it was piled up to the knees.

 

Seeing the snow sceneries from the trains of the Echizen Railway in Fukui are always beautiful. Taking the Ktsuyama Eiheiji Line from Fukui station, as the train gets closer to Ktsuyama City, you start seeing snow more and more.

 

On February 11th, 2017, many public transportation services were delayed or cancelled but the Echizen Railway was fine. I like taking trains of Echizen Railway because of it. They hardly delay or cancel.

 

 

T.F

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