狂い咲き blooming out of season

気温の変動に惑わされて、一旦咲きかけた桜です。

This cherry tree was confused by an irregular change of the temperature and seemed to be about to bloom once.

1/1000sec, F1.8, manual, ISO200, 50mm (aps-c)

candle also melted

化石になれるか can it become a fossil

八重の椿が、石の上に落ちて張り付いたようです。

A double-flowered camellia fell on a flat stone and seemed to stick.

1/60sec, F1.8, manual, ISO200, 50mm (aps-c)

強い日差し glaring sunlight

椿の花びらを突き抜ける程の強い日差しです。

It is strong sunlight to go through the petal of the camellia.

1/1600sec, F1.8, manual, ISO200, 50mm (aps-c)

謹賀新年 Happy New Year

明けましておめでとうございます

New Year's greeting to you!

right: lion's face mask for lion dance ; to exorcise evil from a person

I thought that it had two sets of eyebrows first, but later I realized the upper part is the ear.

center: kadomatsu ; ornament on the front gate

left: lion dance costume (maybe)

橦木 wooden pole used to ring a hanging bell

この橦木（しゅもく）は、シュロの木から作られたものです。シュロは堅いので、鐘を撞くのに適した材料です。最近はシュロの橦木を見かけることはあまりありません。

This pole was made of a hemp palm. Because a trunk of a hemp palm is very hard, it is suitable materials to hit a bell, but recently we seldom see a pole made of a hemp palm.

In Japan, on New Year's Eve, they ring 108 times of bells at each temple. It is said that this sound of the bell releases people from 108 human worldly desires.

1/160sec, F1.8, manual, ISO200, 50mm (aps-c)

銀杏の老木 old ginkgo tree

表面はレイヤー構造になっていました。
横にしてみると、侵食された大地に見えなくもないです。

The surface has become the multi-layered structure.
I could even say that it looks like the eroded earth if I put this photograph widthwise.

1/80sec, F1.8, manual, ISO800, 50mm (aps-c)

闖入者 intruder

オナガが茂みのなかで騒ぎ始めましたが、その後居なくなりました。

Several azure-winged magpies began to make noise in the bush, but they flew away afterward.

camellia

1/50sec, F1.8, manual, ISO200, 50mm (aps-c)