Surfinias and Summer Memories 🌺

👋🏻 Hello everyone, this is Celeste. 👋🏻

It suddenly became very hot this week, didn’t it?

I commute from Kokubunji to Ikegami, and I sometimes wonder, “Is there any train line with delays as bad as the Chuo Line?” 😱

I leave much earlier than necessary to account for delays, but when the trains are actually running smoothly, I end up arriving far too early! 😅

One such morning, I discovered some very beautiful surfinias! 🌸

Surfinias keep blooming with new flowers one after another, so many people grow trailing surfinias in hanging planters 🪴 at home.

I also love gardening 🧑‍🌾 very much, and at my parents’ house we had a large garden.

I even dug a pond myself and tried adding a small fountain to it.

My father was also very handy and built a wooden deck, and during summer evenings it became a family tradition to eat dinner out on the deck in the garden.

It reminded me of some very wonderful family moments 💕!

So this has turned into quite a random stream-of-consciousness blog post… 😅

It’s only going to get hotter from here on ☀️🕶️, so during lessons everyone, please remember to stay hydrated and drink water regularly 🚰