Amarylis bud provides focal point. In back are bare net and sea of buildings.

アマリリスのつぼみに焦点をあてました。背景にはまだ新しいグリーンカーテンのネットと波のような建物の列があります。去年と２００９年に、同じアマリリスの写真を出しました。

I also took photos of this bulb last year and in 2009.

Wild palm is allowed to grow in manicured landscape

日本庭園の剪定はカンペキです。東京体育館のような公共施設にもツツジが波の形にしてあって、木が高いプードルみたいです。ですから、そこで自然に生えたシュロを見て驚きました。ヤシは「外人」だから、大丈夫なのでしょうか。

Japanese garden maintenance is precise and skilled, even in public facilities. Because of this, I was all the more surprised and delighted to see a self-sown shuro palm disrupting this heavily manicured and idealized landscape behind the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium. The azaleas on the slope are pruned to suggest waves, and the trees pruned as if they were posh poodles.

Maybe because it’s a palm tree, this intruder is allowed to thrive.

Layers of Nakano residential life. Bushes pruned as waves contrast with angular buildings.

茂みの波の形は、角張った建物に対照しています。

The bushes’ wave shape makes a nice contrast with the angular buildings tightly packed.