"Tsukushi" in my backyard

It is a year since I moved to Matsue. I'm surprised to find there are "Tsukushi" (fertile shoots of field-horsetail) all around my backyard. I pluck them to eat at dinner almost daily. But they comes out one after another.

A grey heron in the rain

I sometimes see a grey heron near the moat. Today it was standing still on the pipe bridge in the cold rain.

Are they cherry blossoms?

When I passed by a nearby shrine, I found this tree was in almost full blossom. It may be a kind of cherry tree but I don't know the correct name of it. (I'm sure that it isn't "Somei-Yoshino"). Anyway light pink blossoms were very beautiful.

A white-eye

A white-eye were flying around the plum blossoms in my next-door garden.

Smoke haze

It was very fine day today. There was no clouds in the sky. I thought I would be able to see the beautiful sunset. But when I went to Lake Shinji, the setting sun vanished in the haze. There was no afterlight at all. According to the news, today's weather phenomenon was not "Haru-gasumi" (spring haze) but "Enmu"(smoke haze).

Plum blossoms at Matsue Castle

Plum blossoms in Matsue Jouzan Park were in almost full blossom.

A stray cat

I found something moving at the very edge of the rampart. It was a stray cat. If it loses its footing, it'll fall down into the moat. But it didn't seem to be afraid of the height. It went back and forth at its own pace.