週末
久方ぶりに土日を自宅で過ごした。週末、朝目覚めると、女房が「今日のご予定は・・」とのたまう。「無し、映画は・・」
と言うのが最近のパターン。ところが先週末は余り観たい映画もなく、では奈良の「松伯美術館 http://www.kintetsu.jp/shohaku/」
にでも、と云う事になり、ドライブがてらゆったりと出かけることにした。
僕は、農道のような田舎道をノンビリと走るのが好きで、ドライブがてらとなるとついつい奈良方面となる。
枚方から私市を抜け奈良へと車を走らせると、私市のはずれに植物園の看板（大阪市立大学理学部付属植物園http://www.sci.osaka-cu.ac.jp/biol/botan/）
が目に入った。雨上がりで空気も良いし、何となく立ち寄ってみたくなり、道草を決定。
前々から私市の植物園は一度行って見たいと思っていたが、駐車場が整備されてなく、行きそびれていたが、
最近出来たのか駐車場５００円の看板もあった。
この植物園、商売気は全く無し。大体が大阪市大理学部の研究施設的植物園であり、入場料は３５０円程はとるが、後は全くのご自由。
花畑にも果樹園にも自然林にも竹林にも勝手に入って行けて、何となく自然の野山を散歩している感じ。妻と私の外に人影は無し。
ピクニック気分で浮き浮きと散策を楽しんでいると、突然、柿がつづなりになっているのが目に入る。つい子供の頃の癖で手が伸びる・・・。
平べったい甘柿の形であった為、頭から甘柿と思い込み、何のためらいも無くガブリ。甘い汁がスッと来たかと思った途端に強烈な渋味、
口の中は渋でザラザラに・・・。女房は１人大喜び・・・、トホホ・・・。ところが其れにも懲りず、木の実が落ちていると手当たり次第に、
皮をむいては味わってみる。多種多様の木があり木の実も色々であるが、大半が喰ってくえなくはない感じ。
一寸手を加えれば結構いけるのではと云ったものであった。普通の植物園と違い「お手を触れないで下さい」とか「立ち入り禁止」
の看板などは全くなく、伸び伸びと楽しめるとても良い植物園であった。
植物園の水連の葉
薄ピンクの水連
如何にも水連らしい水連
なんだったか忘れた
サワギキョウの蜜を蜂が吸おうと必死になっている様子
このシーンを撮るのに僕も必死
何所に蜂がいるかな？
結局植物園で時間を取られ、目的の松伯美術館についたのはお昼過ぎ。車を近くの公園駐車場に止め、急ぎ美術館へ。
ところが何となく雰囲気がおかしい、人の気配が全くしない。何と展示品交換のため休館中。モーまったく、と言うところであるが、
それでも何となく道草した植物園が良かったためか、特にがっかりもせず、結構楽しい気分で帰途についた。
追記、数日前から我が家の庭に可愛らしい子狸が出没している。目的は蹲（つくばい）の水らしい。いつもは、蹲に「ほてい草」
を入れていたが、朝見ると、ほてい草が周りに散らかっている。最初は烏の悪戯と思っていたが、数日前に妻が犯人を発見、
犯人は犯人でなく犯狸（子狸）であった。そこで、ほてい草を出し、水を飲みやすきしてあげたのに、親の心子知らずで、この子狸、
何を考えているのか、今朝は縁側の踏み石に置いているスリッパを一つだけ持って行ったらしい・・・。現場を見たわけではないが、
子狸の仕業としか考えられない。そのうち隠し場所を探し当て、厳しく尋問してやろうと思う。
子狸が水を飲みにくる蹲
一つ取り残された、寂しそうな僕のスリッパ。
I spent a Saturday and Sunday at home for the first time in a while. When I woke up in the morning on the weekend, my wife said, “What are your plans for today? No, there’s no movie…
This is the recent pattern. However, I didn’t have any movies I wanted to see last weekend, so I went to the Shouhaku Museum of Art in Nara (http://www.kintetsu.jp/shohaku/)
We decided to go out for a leisurely drive.
I like to take a leisurely drive along country roads like farm roads, and when I drive, I always go to Nara.
If you drive from Hirakata to Nara, there is a signboard for a botanical garden on the outskirts of the city (Osaka City University Botanical Garden, Faculty of Sciencehttp://www.sci.osaka-cu.ac.jp/biol/botan/).
came into view. It was after the rain and the air was good, and I wanted to stop by for some reason, so I decided to make a road trip.
I’ve been wanting to visit the botanical garden in my city for a long time, but I didn’t want to go there because there was no parking lot.
There was also a signboard for 500 yen for a parking lot that was recently built.
This botanical garden has no business at all. Most of them are botanical gardens like research facilities of Osaka City University of Science, and the admission fee is about 350 yen, but the rest is completely free.
You can go into flower fields, orchards, natural forests, and bamboo forests on your own, and somehow you feel like you are walking in a natural wilderness. No one is seen outside my wife and I.
As I was enjoying a picnic and strolling around, I suddenly noticed that there were persimmons in a jumble. It’s a childhood habit that makes me reach for it…
Because it was a flat, sweet persimmon shape, I thought it was a sweet persimmon from the head, and without any hesitation, I grabbed it. As soon as I thought the sweet juice came, the strong astringency, the
The inside of the mouth is astringent and rough… My wife is overjoyed…………………………………….. However, they didn’t learn their lesson.
Peel it and taste it. There are many kinds of trees and many kinds of nuts, but most of them are not impossible to eat.
I thought it could be done with a little work. Unlike most botanical gardens, it’s “Do not touch” or “Do not enter.
It was a very good botanical garden that we could enjoy in a relaxed way.
The leaves of a water lily in a botanical garden
Light pink water lilies
It’s just like a water federation
I don’t remember what it was.
Bees trying desperately to suck the nectar from the oleander.
I’m working hard to get this shot.
Where do you think the bees are?
In the end, we spent some time at the botanical garden and arrived at the Shouhaku Museum of Art after noon. I parked my car at a nearby park and hurried to the museum.
However, there was something strange about the atmosphere, and there was no sign of people. The museum is closed for the exchange of exhibits. I’d say that’s exactly what I’m talking about.
Still, it was good for the botanical garden was somehow on the way home without being particularly disappointed, quite a pleasant feeling.
A few days ago, a cute little raccoon dog started to appear in my garden. The purpose is apparently to drink water from tsukubai. Usually, tsukubai and hotei-zakura.
When I looked at it in the morning, I saw that there was a lot of hot grass around it. At first I thought it was a crow prank, but then my wife found out who did it a few days ago.
The culprit was not the culprit, but the raccoon dog (a child raccoon dog). So I gave him a cup of hot grass and gave him a drink of water, but he was a raccoon with no knowledge of his parents.
I don’t know what he was thinking, but this morning he took one of the slippers that he left on the stepping stone at the veranda with him. I haven’t seen the scene, but…
I can’t help but think it’s the work of a sly dog. One of these days I’m going to find out where he’s hiding it and I’m going to interrogate him hard.
stone wash basin – a baby raccoon dog comes to drink water
One left behind, my slippers that look lonely.
