Garden

We started this year's vegetable garden. We are growing tomato, peaman, jalepeno, lettuce, eggplant, potato, basil, and rosemary. We are really challenging ourselves this year, we'll just have to see how it goes.

We asked our neighbor to help us dig to expand the garden. We are thinking to plant flowers along the slope and vegetables in the flat area. We still have a lot of work to do!

Sunset

We caught a beautiful sunset on the way home from Oita yesterday.

BBQ

We are having a barbeque on Sunday, May 24th from 10:00-17:00. Please join us! Feel free to bring your own food and drink, we will have a hot grill waiting. If you don't want to bring anything, we will be serving American-style hamburgers for 600yen. We will not be serving the usual cafe food. We are hoping for good weather, but even if it rains we will have the party. This event is for everyone, so please bring your friends.

New painting

Mark gave us a new painting, we have quite a collection of his work. The title of this piece is "Bull becoming flowers, flowers becoming bull."

Studio time

We have both been busy in our studios lately. We have a lot of work to make for our upcoming show. The nice weather makes it so much more pleasant to be working.

Leaf

I noticed this interesting leaf in the garden today...the flower and the leaf are one. I love it.

Itchou Tree

The itchou tree is coming out. This is my favorite tree in the garden, every year it grows at least a foot. I am looking forward to seeing how tall it gets this year.