Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Soap

Lush (Fresh handmade cosmetics)

Recently I care about products which I use for skin...
Just remembered there is a shop close to my work.

I bought two soaps today...
Hand/Body soap and hair soap.


Mitsubachi March (March of honey bee) and Torikomania
Engish (AUS): Honey I Washed The Kids and Trichomania

Both have really nice aroma...
Honey one is, you can tell from the name. Aroma is honey. After washed the body or hand still have aroma.
Trichomania is for hair. Aroma is coconut. During wash my hair, I feel like in tropical island. There are rich coconut aroma. After that still have delicate flavour.

I like so much both soaps.

Little bit expensive (I reckon Australia is moore expensive than Japan.), but I reckon if you care about skin it is worth to buy it... and best thing is very gorgeous aroma from natural products.

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Summer event

-Summer festival-

In the morning I went window shopping with my friend at inner city.
At night time, there was a summer festival.

It was small festival. Even though there are lots of stalls. Food, drink, games, toys and so on...
I took few photos there and chose good condition one.

In front of the shrine, there are many lantern.
We didn't go into the shrine, but it was very gorgeous...


Shrine and lantern

This might be interesting for foreigner...


Character masks's stall

There are various kind of masks which popular in children.
It's not only for children. We can buy and wear it.

There were many people, but it was fun to go.

Saturday, August 07, 2010

Hiking

-Hiking to Mt. Ibuki-

I went to Mt. Ibuki with my parents.
My mum drove us.

The highway was chockablock... It took 3 hours to there. (Normally about 2 hours.)
However I found cute road sign.


Animal caution for Tanuki (Raccoon dogs)

We arrived the parking...
Let's hike!!

There are many rocks.
Most of the rocks are limestone, so it's very slippery when it's wet.






View from mountain toward to ski resort.

Some lives in mountain...
Captured a bird.
However long distance, so bit bad quality...
A locust.
For me, this is creepy...
Gorgeous butterflies everywhere...

A man said me, 'Look, you should take this too.'

I saw many pretty flowers.
(Sorry it's only Japanese name...)

'Ibuki torikabuto'
'Utsubogusa'

'Marubadakebuki'

'Tsuru ninjin' (Maybe this, but might different flowers will bloom...)
'Syurosou'

'Kooni yuri'
'Kawara nadeshiko'

'Ezo fuuro'

'Waremokou'

'Tsurigane ninjin'

'Ruri toranoo'
We arrived top of the mountain...
This mountain is 1,377m.
The building used to meteorological station, but not any more...
Good bye mountain...
These are from the car views.
Twisty road... It was exciting, but I bet mum was tired to drive this road.
Treat time!!
We off to Oogaki to have summer sweets.

Mizu manju/kuzu manju (Water bun/Arrowroot bun)
Pink (grape-an/red beans paste with grape taste), Green (Maccha-an/red beans paste with green tea) and Brown (Anko/red beans paste)