Blue skies have appeared

At last it’s going to clear up for the week steadily.

On my way back to Nara City.
I visited three Athletic Meetings of my grandchildren one after another in a week.

I like autumn rain which falls gently or sometimes more like drizzle. 

 Early September, it was a welcome relief.

With each rain, it got cooler.

Soon I realized that the extreme weather had been still continuing in a different way.

The persistent autumn rain and three super typhoons (# 22, 24, and 25) 

which came every holiday weekends caused few sunny days.

Lycoris radiata

The maintenance and repairs of my home has been disrupted by the weather.

When I was indoors, the rare blue skies were looked up through the mesh sheets 

attached to the temporary scaffolding. 

Under the dismal sky, the scaffolding set fire on Y’s curious and adventuresome spirit. 

Before each typhoon, the top sheets were taken off

not to be flapped in the storm wind.

In the silence before the typhoon

I was scared by the ferocious howling of the wind during the duration of the passing typhoon.

The young berries of Callicarpa japonica survived.

The colors will deepen soon.

I found some colored leaves of a flowering dogwood.

Flowering doogwood leaves are the first to change colors.

Having a sense of autumn, I have the craving for “Kuri”, or chestnut.
It is an autumn delicacy.

Now that the full exterior painting and roof repairs are mostly completed.

the temporary scaffolding will be taken away in this week. 

I'm ready for exploring into autumn.

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