Monday, April 02, 2007

Yellow sand

Today, Japan was widely covered with Yellow Sand from China.
This sand was carried on strong wind from China.
TV news said many cities in Japan were coated with annoying sand.

In this time of the season, this is the typical example of bad things here.
This climate phenomenon seems to become very heavy year after year.

That many woods are reportedly cut for houses, paper, etc in China is one of the reason which cause this heavy yellow sand to be worse than ever.

Sunday, April 01, 2007

Erythronium japonicum

Erythronium japonicdum.
You can see this flower in a grove but only for about two or three weeks.
Only this season.
I myself took this photo.