The neighborhood festival Hieta Matsuri..

Last year was so fun I decided to try and come here every year. There was another great event the same night this year "Ocean Souls" an awesome-looking movie with an interesting singer.. But that event was inside and about an hour's drive away. When in doubt I go to the closest event that requires no driving and no money. I wanted to support the great people organizing the event but at something like that I end up talking with outside with the volunteers outside till the event ends or fall asleep: Even napping at an event like that makes for great dreams.. But at this event was more appropriate to just stand around talking for a few hours.

I talked with the family of the girl with the funny English on her t-shirt, a couple other families, some Fellow Foreigners (FFs... )

#HietaMasuri #HietaPark #MimataHieta #三股稗田 #稗田公園 #稗田祭

"the great park tree Zelkova" is how Colin Tudge describes the 欅 ケヤキ Keyaki trees. A Japanese site said this wood is very hard to chop, but it also said that YamaMomo was the toughest wood they ever split. My experience of one tree each puts Cinammon and Kurogane Holly over Yamamomo in difficulty but maybe there were extenuating circumstances, or maybe the guy writing the Japanese site had more of an urge to sell fancy axes than opportunity to build up a lot of wood splitting experience,

It's wierd to see a magnificent tree like this and think of turning it into firewood. But I've seen at least two trees like this just fallen over after a typhoon. The root bases were shallow. Hopefully this tree will be ok with the roots all tangled up in the IchiiGashi evergreen oaks and KOrogane Holly trees that surround it..

#Zelkova #HIetaPark #欅 #ケヤキ木 #三股町稗田公園

The Need for Roots: --- Simone Weil
".. the tree is rooted in the sky..."

#TreeRoots #HieDaPark #HietaPark #稗田公園 #ケヤキの根 #TreeRoots #ZelkovaRoots

Loving this row of tree, the mini-forest in Mimata Town's Hieta Park.

#MimataTown #HietaPark #三股町 #稗田公園 #ケヤキの木 #ケヤキ #欅 #ケヤキの根っこ

Thanks to the dog I hang out at this park almost everyday, often twice in one day. The chickens get us up early so it's easy to appreciate the trees in the morning before anybody else is in the park. This one ginkgo nut tree must be having a mast year or something. It's fun to collect the seeds (nuts?) before their covering turns yellow and stinky. I cast them around, bury them with Maron's poop. Maybe a few more cooling trees will arise from the playfulness?? It used to be fun to throw black walnuts around Tyler State Park.

#MimataTown #HietaPark #GinkgoTree #GinkgoNuts #三股町 #稗田公園 #三股稗田公園 #銀杏 #銀杏の木 #銀杏 #銀杏の身

欅ケヤキの木だと思う。 どんぐりのイチイガシかもしれないけど、 後で確認しておきます。 団地(地域？)の公園が素晴しい。 大きい木があると落ち着く。 夏になると涼しくしてくれるからありがたい.... Thanks!!!
#三股町 #宮崎県三股町 #稗田公園 #樹木 #ケヤキ #Zelkova #LocalPark #地域の公園 #MimataTown #MIyazakiMImata #HietaPark