The Moon and Mars

Looking out of the kitchen window, I noticed by chance a red star dimly but steadily twinkling just above the mountain ridge across the valley.
台所の窓からふと外を見ると、谷向かいの山の端から少し上に真っ赤な星がほの暗く、しかしくっきりと光っていた。

It turned out what I took for a star was actually a planet: Mars.  Because of its low altitude, the light from Mars travels a long distance through the atmosphere, thus the higher frequencies of the light spectrum are filtered out by the airborne particles and it becomes reddish. Mars is originally red even without the filter effect, and the effect has added vividness to its color.  (Unfortunately the photos couldn’t reproduce the color.)
「星」と思ったのは実は惑星:火星だった。高度が低いので火星の光は大気中を長い距離通過し、それゆえ浮遊物質によって光のスペクトルの短波長域が濾し取られ、赤っぽくなる。フィルターされなくても火星は元から赤いのだが、その効果で色に鮮やかさが加わっていた。(残念ながら写真では色の再現はできていないのだが)

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Gifts from neighbors 到来物

Home grown onions, green peas, and whole bunch of goodies! What can I say… I’m enjoying just looking at ‘em in euphoria.

自家栽培の玉ネギ、エンドウ豆、そんで甘いものイッパイ!
言うこと無いよ。。。見てるだけでほよよ~ん、 しゃーわせ。

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Onion, peas, goodies!

Moreover, I got s’more tasty stuff my sister gave me last weekend: home-smoked oysters, chicken breast and Iberico pork, along with duck eggs, chirimen-sansho and homemade soba (buck wheat) noodle… Whoa!
まだまだ美味しいものが、先週末に妹のところから来てるし。。。自家燻製の鳥むね肉にイベリコ豚、それにアヒルの卵、ちりめん山椒、手打ち蕎麦。。。うひゃ!

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Canned chirimen-sansho and smoked oysters.
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Chicken breast and Iberico pork smoked by my sister.
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Duck eggs and a chicken egg
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Soba noodle made by my brother in law.