Tenri city...

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　天理市の銀杏並木

Tenri city is thirty kilometers south of Nara city where I live.
Ginkgo trees are the symbol of this town.It was drizzling in the morning, but I decided to visit this town,expecting it will be fine.

   At this time of year, this town shines in gold with the colored leaves.
  　　　　　　　　　　　 黄金に輝く天理の町です。

After it stopped raining, the sunburst among the clouds made the ginkgo leaves bright.

       I am fascinated with the golden leaves.

  Road surface and ginkgo trees after the rain.

                    A bus heading for Tenri station.

                        
                        Many leaves turning yellow from green.
                                     I love this hue.

There were the local women picking up the fallen ginkgo nuts on the sidewalk.
  

                            
They willingly showed me the nuts. Do you like eating gingko nuts? If you pick up many nuts and want to eat them......Wash and remove the pulp. Then, take out the seeds inside. Let them dry under the sun for a few days and eat the nuts in the completely dried seeds. The nuts can be cooked in many ways.The green nuts are essential to a Japanese cuisine, "Chawan-mushi"

                                         

              My home is almost there. 
                                                        

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Here and there in my town.

A stone basin in my garden.

The town I live in has been showing a sign of going into autumn day by day.

It is always fun to take a walk in a rural area and a residential area and to visit the local temples with my camera.

 The rice field after harvesting shining in the evening sun

                   It is time for farmers to take a rest for a while.

 

 The rice dedicated to a local shrine to thank for the rich harvest in this year.                                                                               

                                      

                              A small temple that the locals visit.              

                                             A bell in a garden of the temple.

This bell is struck at 6 O'clock in the morning and at 4:30 in the evening. It is a sign to let the farmers know the time.
Concentrating on taking photos of the bell, I was peering through my camera lens. Suddenly I heard something chatter, and a loud tone of the bell, "goooooon,gooooon!" started to resonate over my head. It broke the silence. Fortunately, I did not drop my camera even though I was surprised at it.　A priest who lives in the temple used to strike the bell, but for the first time, I found that it is now struck automatically.

The automation of bell struck me. However many bells in Japanese temples are struck by priests before services.

                                                                                                                                                   

                                               

                                   Some floweres planted by locals lately.   

     
 A cup of hot coffee is waiting for me at home after my long walk! Some Japanese people like to use traditional Japanese  tea cups for coffee. I like that too.

        
                              A hand made tea cup of Japanese pottery.

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                                         Until next time!