THE FIRST CROP OF BLUEBERRY (ブルーベリー最初の収穫)

I got up at 5:30 this morning. 

The sun didn't shine on the garden. 

I went hurriedly into the garden and started to harvest blueberry 

for the first time this season.  

Some of the berries have ripened, and harvested 400 grams. 

今朝は5時半に起きました.
まだ庭に日は射していません.
急いで庭に下りて今年はじめてのブルーベリーの収穫を始めました.
だいぶん熟してきていて、400グラムほどの収穫です.

5:30AM

When I started harvesting, I found a diamond shaped something.  

At first I didn't know what it was, however, I approached 

and I found that they were a pair of moths.  

Too perfect its shape was!

収穫を始めたとき、菱形の何者かに気づきました.

最初は何なのか分かりませんでしたが、近づいてみると

それが蛾のつがいと分かりました.

その形の何と完璧なことか！

When I finished harvesting, the sun had already started to shine on blueberry bushes. 

It's so hot and I was soaked with sweat. 

That's why I got up early this morning. 

Harvesting blueberries in our garden is best in the early morning.  

収穫が終わるころにはすでにブルーベリーの木に日が射し始めていました.

とても暑く、汗びっしょりになりました.

今朝早起きをしたのはこれが理由です.

我が家の庭でブルーベリーの収穫は早朝に限るのです.

7:30AM

We enjoyed eating blueberries raw for the first time in ten months

and felt that the mid-summer has come. 

10ヶ月ぶりにブルーベリーを生で頂いて楽しみ

本格的な夏の到来を感じました. 

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WHITE HAIRY LARVAE OF BLACK PSEUDO-BUTTERFLY

There were white hairy larvae on the underside of the tree (Benthamidia japonica).

Pure white color of its hairy appendices

A Benthamidia japonica tree with four-petaled white flowers in June.

It is quite difficult to determine which side is a head or tail.  It is a larva of a black butterfly-like moth.  It is unimaginable that this white larva become a black 'butterfly'.  

The moth 'Epicopeia hainesii' looks like a butterfly

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Tour of France 2014 finished this morning, and Italy's Vincenzo Nibali won.  

I broke my own record of 180 kCal during 30 minute-aerobike training machine several days ago when I was watching the race.  

Thibaut PINOT, maillot blanc - Vincezo NIBALI, Maillot jaune - Peter SAGAN, maillot vert - Rafal MAJKA, maillot à pois (from left to right,  © ASO/B.Bade)

181 kCal for 30 minuites: my new record