September & October Country Walk Photo Journal

Hello, everyone! Here are some photos from September and October. I hope you enjoy the images.

こんにちは。皆様お元気ですか？前回に引き続き9月10月編のフォトジャーナルをお届けします。

COUNTRY WALK PHOTO JOURNAL

- SEPTEMBER -

My September started with this rose sky at sunrise.

From a diary：I left home for a morning walk before sunrise at 6.23, the moon was still high in the sky. Today's loch, Kenmure Hill Temple in the distance was shrouded in mist.

九月はこのバラ色の朝焼けと共に始まりました。霞の奥はミステリアスなケンミュールヒルテンプルのシルエット。

Rosebay Willowherb - Gradually the nature has started to show the autumn appearance.
ローズマリーウィローハーブ - 徐々に自然界は秋の装いを見せ始めています。

Epilogue of summer garden harvest and some trial first crop of winter leafy vegetables, Mizuna 水菜 and selection of Karashina 芥子菜 mustard leaves from the garden

庭では夏野菜収穫のエピローグ。葉野菜は冬ものトライアルで - 水菜、芥子菜など

Persicaria Filiformis, I found this in the local nursery . I couldn’t resist the very Japanese feel the plants create.

この頃、偶然スコットランド最大規模を誇る園芸ショップを近隣の村に見つけて何度か訪れました。水引や紫式部など、茶花として生けられそうな植物を中心に庭作りを計画中。

Aragostine and cannoli on a beautiful plate from Robyn Cove Pottery. These Italian sweets are from the deli gift shop in the nursery.

陶芸家友達のロビンの作品に、園芸ショップのギフトコーナーで毎回買っていたイタリアのお菓子をのせて。

COUNTRY WALK PHOTO JOURNAL

- OCTOBER -

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I’ve started to take different walking paths. Only a 15-mins from home, you’ll be in the deep woodlands where we sometimes encounter roe deers. There are many different routes and we’ve been enjoying exploring the area. What we immediately noticed in Scottish woodlands around where we live now is how so many Rowan trees there are. The most striking one is definitely the pretty pink coloured one. We wonder if these are poisonous or not for birds as they stay on the trees for months and months while other types of Rowan berries have all been eaten by birds like sterlings.

この頃から日課の散歩ルートを湖畔沿いから鹿にも出会える森の奥、眺めの良い丘方面へ行く様になりました。スコットランドへ来てすぐに気づくのがローワンの木がとても多い事。印象的なのは、こちらの綺麗なピンク色のタイプ。他の赤い実の種類は皆んな鳥に食べられてしまう中、有毒なのか何ヶ月もずっと実を落とさずにピンク色を保っています。

Harlequin, Casperita, Acorn Green, Munchkin and etc. etc. We’d been looking forward to this pumpkin / squash season.

October Curry
Mauritius masala roasted miniature pumpkins & onions with green lentil jewel sauce.
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[ Please adjust the amount of each ingredient to taste ]
1. Soak green lentils over night or more then cook until softened.
2. Cut pumpkins* into 12 (we used small munchkin) and slice onions and toss them in olive oil and spice mix and leave for a few hours ) this time we used a Mauritius Masala mix** we got from Spice Mountain in Borough Market .
3. Place the vegetables on a flat baking tray and roast on a medium heat in oven till soft and onions slightly colouring.
4. Add ghee to a pan and add garlic and ginger to taste, then add lentils and some more spice mix and warm, add tin of coconut milk and some dried chilis and cook till hot.
5. Added cumin seeds and ghee to the basmati rice then cook.
* We recommend the pumpkins, smaller ones sold at stores during the Halloween season, the colourful smaller ones (white, green, striped etc.) rather than normal pumpkins for all season. They seem like heritage types.
** Mauritius masala mix are cumin, coriander, turmeric, fenugreek, black pepper, mustard seeds, chillies, ginger, and curry leaves.

10月はパンプキンの季節。色々な種類のカボチャは一年前から店頭に並ぶのを楽しみにしていました。今年はインド洋に位置するモーリシャスのスパイスミックスを使って、グリーンレンズ豆のソースを添えたローストパンプキンのカレーをクリスに作ってもらいました。

These mountains around Rannoch Moor and Glencoe looked like Magritte's paintings.

From a diary：Today was a rainbow day - lots of rainbows as the weather was changing every minute. I've never seen rainbows so close to me. The landscape reminded me of 007 Skyfall. Afterwards I discovered the area was the very location the image was filmed.

初めて訪れたハイランド地方のグレンコー。雄大な景色は007のスカイフォールを彷彿とさせるなと感じていたら、まさにこの辺りがロケ現場だったよう。