How have you been enjoying June? It's already rainy season officially in Tokyo. Usually hate rain though, there are a lot of happy jobs during a rainy season!
梅雨の合間の晴れの日に藍の生葉染め用の綿糸の精錬や豆汁処理をしたり、水が大好きな藍の成長を見守ったり、手まりの中にいれるラベンダーを収穫したり。手まりには関係ないですが、何より私の大好物、家族の大好物の梅シロップを仕込んだりと大忙しです。
Washing & putting soy milk cotton threads as a colour-fixatives for fresh-leave indigo dyeing, keep watching Japanese indigo which loves water a lot, harvesting lavenders from the garden for temari, and it's not really connection with temari though, I was busy for making UME syrup:-)which is my & my family's favourite!
washed cotton threads |
grown up quickly! |
home-made lavenders |
two weeks to wait |
Fresh UME |
梅雨の雨音でも楽しみながら、忙しい夏までゆっくりいきますか。梅雨ですが週末はピクニック日和の日もあり、蚊の多くない今しかできないことたくさんしなくちゃね!
Let's enjoy slow life with nice sound of rain outside. I need to do a lot of picnics before evil mosquitos will come out!
みなさまも素敵な六月をお過ごしください。
Wish you a lovely June there!