Some cool dishes.

It's rainy season now, when it's forwarding summer, sometimes we would like to have some "cool" dishes.

A dish with sour - cucumber, wakame (sea weed) with some strawberries harvested in our tiny farm and a piece of Japanese pepper leaf.


As there were some fresh horse mackerels available, we made them as "tataki" (minced raw horse mackerel). As Hakuba is located in mountains, fresh sea fish is not always available. But when we find some, sometimes try this way.

When it gets hot and humid in big cities, it feels as if it were hell sometimes, hope eveyone is alright by taking some healthy meals like those which helps to refresh people.

Hayaokidori website

Mulberry

A mulberry tree is now heavy with fruits.

When the fruits look darker red or maybe I can say black, it's time to harvest them.
Mulberry fruits are sweet, but you had better rinse your mouth after having some because if you didn't do that, your mouth looks as if it were with "ohaguro" teeth for married women in edo era in Japan. Even your right person may get disappointed with its looking lol....
When you cook some mulberry jam, it's slightly sticky and taste very mild and sweet.As mulberry fruits are not easily available in Japan, it would cost a lot if you tried to get enough to make some jam, but worth trying.

Hayaokidori website

A sunny day in the rainy season

It seems that the rainy season finally has come to this area as well. It rained very sensitively yesterday like silk. It was cloudy and sunny today. They say it'll be hot summer this year in Japan due to the La Niña

Japan North Alps mountains view from Mt.Iwatake. Some snow still stays at the top area. Usually they stay there even in summer. Wonder how it'll go this summer.

Hayaokidori website

Making a layout #35 Happy return

Seen this kind of scenery in some Western movies. Seldom seen ones in Japanese movies.

Hayaokidori website

Switchbacks

Found some switchback clips at Youtube, as I don't think I can visit some of them soon...

Ubasute (JR Shinonoi line : Nagano prefecture)
Close to my location but have never ridden on any trains there after I moved into Hakuba. The joint sound when the train going across the cross point is cool.

Tateno (JR Houhi honsen line : Kumamoto prefecture)
Trains go uphill by changing the direction to climb the Aso mountain. This train abouve goes strongly uphill, but when I rid on one in '76, it seemed too tough for the train to go up there.

Tsubojiri (JR Dosan honsen line : Tokushima prefecture)
I sometimes passed there but only with express trains, have never experienced the local trains there yet.

Hayaokidori website

A suspension bridge at Ooide

This is often found in some pamphlets, a suspension bridge at Ooide with the symbolic Hakuba 3 mountains on its back. Full of green which is comfortable to see. It looks different in winter because everything is covered by snow.....

Hayaokidori website

Making a layout #34 A tractor

Put a tractor at an unpaved road along the lake. Would like to put a driver, but can not find a figure which can sit in the driver seat. Every one is a bit bigger :(

Hayaokidori website