still there comes spring.....!

我が家のベランダにある鉢植えの一つ。
名前は分からないけど唐辛子の一種らしい。
立春は過ぎたんだろうけど、
しおしおになった実や葉っぱを見ると
余計に気温が低く感じられるね。

This is the plant placed in my house's small small veranda.
I don't know the name, but I'm sure this is a kind of red pepper.
Maybe the first day of the spring (according to the calender)
has passed, however, I feel here's still under the thick clouds of the cold winter
when I see sapless berries and leaves.

前に、東南アジアからの留学生が話していたことだけど、
彼が日本に来て一番感動したのは、冬に枯れた植物が
春にはまた生き返るということだったらしい。
東南アジアで植物が枯れたら一大事だもんね。

Some years ago, an oversea student from Southeast Asia told me.
He was moved the most by the fact that
plants and trees bloom again when the spring comes
even though they withered in winter.
Sure, it would be a big trouble if plants were all withered in Southeast Asia.


















でもね、冬に花咲くきれいな花もあるんだよね。

However, there is a beautiful flower
which blooms in winter..