Showing posts with label 七夕. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 七夕. Show all posts

Monday, 7 July 2014

Tanabata Wish

Perhaps I'll have time to plan something for the seventh night of the seventh month, according to the lunisolar calendar (ie: August 2nd this year).
I'll be somewhere without bamboos that day, but perhaps the olive tree nearby will replace the bamboos... or I'll rely on a baby banana tree (for grass solidarity, you know)... I'll see what I can do.

Oddly enough, I think my wish on tanzaku is going to be to save our mini bamboo grove, which I've been ordered to slaughter.
Back when it was planted, I suggested something to contain the rhizome, but I was ignored. Fast forward ten years later, and the three bamboos have settled nicely, and are spreading beautifully. If I were in the country house all year round, I could contain the new ones, but since I'm mostly in town, it's been decided (I disagree, but I can't "vote") that they've all got to go.
Last year, I was watching and admiring the Perseids, near the mini-grove, and the wind gently singing in the leaves as I tried to spot meteors was a lovely bonus that I shall miss if the slaughter's finished by mid-August...

The mini-grove was planted too close to a thick bush of laurels.
I've left a (huge) new bamboo hidden in the heart of the laurels... Perhaps that baby (but already big) bamboo will survive? *fingers crossed*
I hate being ordered to cut healthy plants.


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All right.
I can (and will) entirely blame this post on the anime I've been watching recently... The "strawberries war" in series 2 of Junjou romantica is mostly to blame:


My very first attempt at making Japanese strawberry shortcake isn't as perfect as I'd have liked, but I had the "wrong" kind of cream, and my oven wasn't hot enough when I baked the cake...
And yet:


It was [*cough* Yea, poor thing was eaten pretty quickly] very good, and I'll keep training...

I'll have to find a good source for strawberries or I'll have to start growing them in my flat (that could be an idea).

Next... Kasutera. ^_^

PS: Happy Tanabata!! 幸せな七夕!