The Secret Garden ~by Keiko Nishizu

The concert was very well attended and it was a great success!! I met some of my old friends whom I had not seen for a long time.

Lobby






In the dressing room.



This beautiful stone is my good luck charm. It protects me from misfortune. I always carry it.

今日は歌曲の伴奏をします。
ピアノ独奏なら、ある程度本番でどうなるか予測できる。
でも、言いたくないけど今日のステージは、その場の集中力によって、成功するかどうか、結果が決まるという気がする。

私の気持ちは結構前向き。

うまくいきますように...

I'll do my best.

One of my favorites! 風鈴 (Fu-rin) is a Japanese wind chime. We hang it by the window in summer. These are the traditional edo - furin made of glass. Tinkling beautifully in the wind.



It's a rare gourd shaped one.

Yesterday I visited my friend for a rehearsal. She gave me these fruits in her garden. It's called Chinese lantern plant"; ほおずき(Ho-o-zu-ki) in Japanese.


Lolely fruits! I like it very much!


It's a plant which tells the beginning of summer. Chinese lantern plant festival is held in July every year.


The language of flowers of "Chinese lantern plant" is...
〈Mystery. Beauty of Nature. Please invite me. Undependable. Misunderstanding... 〉

Blackberries in my garden. Too sour for birds? They never pick at those berries.

Today my daughter and I visited" Musee du Petit Prince de Saint-Exupéry" in Hakone. This is the third time we visited there. We enjoyed shopping, had lots of sweets

A wonderful sunny day


A herb garden near the lake Kawaguchi.


Somehow there are no snow on the top of Mt. Fuji, today


The park around the museum


Petit Prince


The entrance of the museum


Hydrangea is still beautiful here.

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