When spring comes, gentle sunlight fill the air and the flowers of rose family bloom. And when it becomes to "Sakura Month (March)" in Old Calendar, taking a short rest after they come out, flowers of rose family come into bearing as strawberry and cherry accompanying which a faint smell.
I, hearing the remote melody of "Strawberry Fields Forever" by The Beatles in my mind, had visited Nirayama, not to enjoy the place, but to taste.
Here in Hiru-ga Kojima, to where Yoritomo Minamoto said to have exiled and lived for 20 years, has changed its image to health place by its plastic greenhouse for strawberry locating everywhere. You know, strawberry is famous for its richness of Vitamin C.
In night, I was taught that the greenhouse will changes to orange because of illumination culture. I was there to join "Eat strawberry as much as you like".
I once went to Kuno Mountain to eat Ishigaki Strawberry "as much as I like".
I remember that I was very tired by the hot greenhouse and sweet taste of strawberry.
This day was the another challenge, though for this time I know how to behave.
Firstly, you have to stand firm and see the strawberry from the path in low position. Squatting down, you can choose the red and ripped one by looking the rear side of leaves. Start eating without milk.
Milk makes your blood-sugar level high.
You also have to make sure not to have strawberry stain on your cloths.
It is very difficult to remove the coloring matter of strawberry just by washing. In short, there will be no problem if you eat with good manner. Also, you have to mention that you cannot eat large amount of them. Good strawberry is sweet.
People can easily satisfied with sweet and good ones.
If you keep on eating after you satisfied, you will begin to feel pain and bitterness.
What a complicated creature human being are!
The best way to eat strawberry is "not to have it full".
I think I become to know the best way to eat strawberry by joining "Eat as much as you like" several times. Near my home, there is the place called "Mito Sea Paradise".
Here you can see sea otter and killer whale.
There are also bottle-nosed dolphin called Amuro.
Giving the popular Japanese Pops singer's name, she performs quite well. In contrast with bottle-nosed dolphin, who has white belly, false killer whale has
black one, same as its back.
There are also Risso's dolphin named Shizuka-chan. Pacific white-sided dolphin has a sickle-pattern on its dorsal fin. Their names are Sirius (the Great Dog), Procyon (the Little Dog) and Regulus (the Lion), all of them related to stars. Actually, they are stars in Dolphin Show.
Sea otter belongs to weasel family, and very much different from sea lion, walrus or seal.
But you can find similarity with sea lion that they both have ears, with walrus walking with 4 legs, and with seal having 2 nipples. Sea otter is very cute when he cracks shell on his belly.
But I now know that this behavior is not the nature of sea otter, but he managed by practicing many times.
Sea otter also became to know the best way to eat shell by eating it many times.
Sometime somewhere, when I meet sea otter again,
I want to tell him the best is "no to have it full".