Flowers

This winter, it's colder than usual.

On Sunday, I took Keihan train and went to "UJI botanical park" in Uji, Kyoto. Kyoto prefecture is next to Osaka prefecture. and Uji city is located south of Kyoto. It takes about 1hr from Osaka.

In the park, there are large garden and we can enjoy various flowers and trees. However, it was very cold day. It was even snowing!
So I refused to walk around the park. Instead, I went and see its green house.
There are many kinds of strange plants I've never seen.

The green room was like a tropical country. There were bananas, coffee trees, cocoa trees, and so on. Cacti were blooming.

It was very interesting place!

A happy new year!

I went to "Hatsu-moude".
It's to visit to a shrine to pray for happiness and a healthy year, in the beginning of the new year.

This year, the shrine I visited was Sumiyoshi taisha, in Osaka.
My shawl hid my clothes but I was dressed in Japanese kimono, I don't wear usually.

I tried a fortune.
Then, it gave me a worst one. It told me that I'm very unlucky...
I felt very bad (-_-;)

So I got a talisman to break the jinx.

I wish our happy 2011.