【Learning】The Summer Triangle (夏の大三角) Altair(アルタイル), Vega(ベガ), and Deneb(デネブ),

This summer,

my teenage daughter was assigned a homework by her science teacher

and here's what she had to:

1. Choose  a  big park in the neighborhood  where you can have wide view of the sky 

2. Pick a place in the park where you can sit down and observe the stars

3. Go to that point  three times, around 7 o'clock,  9 o'clock, and 11 o'clock in the evening

and observe the sky and make a sketch note of the stars.

It would be a wonderful experience,

but  we live in the city part in Japan,

it is not the safest  place. 

So I decided to enjoy  star gazing with her.

It was early August ,  and the sky was clear that night.

Although I had also learned in school,  I have  never  looked up at the sky and observed.

We saw Altair(アルタイル), Vega(ベガ), and Deneb(デネブ), the Summer Triangle  in the east sky at about 7:30pm,  and they gradually moved up and up. It was a beautiful and dramatic sight.

I am so happy that I could share those beautiful moments with my daughter.

Thank you for reading♪

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【Gardening Challenge】Day 1 Rose "Yakumotatsu" (八雲立つ)

 I  saw a pot of roses in a flower shop.

It was one of the  Japanese types,

and the picture on the pot showed that when it blooms

it will have beautiful pale, purplish blue petals. 

The name of this rose is

"Yakumotatsu" (八雲立つ) ,

which comes from a phrase used in ancient Japanese poems.

It makes the impression of clouds colored by early morning sunshine, godly and mysterious. 

I fell in love with this rose, so now it is settled in my garden. 

Actually I am not so good at growing plants.

I forget watering them time to time.

All my flowers in the garden have gone through tough times.

That means all of my flowers that  survived have grown their roots very  strong. 

But this rose I just have to raise with special care.

I am determined to fill my garden with beautiful roses.

I went to the library the next day and picked a couple of books for gardening beginners. 

Now let's begin!

Thank you for reading.

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