2014/08/09 - White flowers, the last stage

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One of the flowers of summer season, named "OKA TORA-no-O" in Japanese.
(I don't know how is called this plant in English)
Now, in the forest "AOBA-no-MORI" it is on the last stage of the flower's blooming.

Oh, I can feel the end of summer season when I see the last of this plant.

2014/08/03 - A typical landscape of japanese countryside

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In the place where it enters the side road from the National Route 457, there was really the summer countryside seems landscape of Japan.

Small river, green rice fields, mountains...

It's very nice.

2014/08/02 - On the top of mushroom

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On the ground in the forest, there were two mushrooms I found.
One was tall, another was lower.

There was a guest on the head of the taller mushroom. 

2014/07/30 - A white flower

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There was a small white flower.
This flower is called as "SEN-NIN SO" in Japanese.

Sen-nin means hermit.
I don't know why it is called so.

But,
I feel somehow like understood the reason for its name.

2014/07/27 - Spotlight

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In the forest, I was walking.
I found a small insect on a leaf irradiated the spotlight of sunshine from between the trees.

He is a star on the leaf stage !

2014/07/21 - The cross of shadow

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In the forest.
I found a cross of shadow on a leaf.

2014/07/13 - A small small baby

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In the forest,
I was walking.

There was a baby of grasshopper on the leaf.

2014/07/10 - A screw flower

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The period of houttuynia flower blooming had over.
Now, it is blooming a small pink-colored "screw" flower.

2014/07/09 - A flower of iris

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It was not so good weather that raining on and off.

I was walking around my working place on the lunch time.
There was found a flower blooming on the side of road.

2014/07/06 - "Under the Snow" ?

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White flowers bloomed in between the stone wall at Sendai castle.
Very strange shape of flower and leaf.

We Japanese people call them as "Yuki-no-shita".

Yuki means snow.
Shita means under.

So, this flower's name is "the under the snow".

But, it is July now.
Why this flower is called like that?