My Tiny Balmy Balcony

  Noco had a lesson of the Japanese flower arrangement at school. On that day, the used flowers were taken home. I put them in a slim glass bottle that used to be a dressing container.😄   "Where are sugary peas??" "We heard pink flowers are their sign, didn't we?" "These flowers seem to give out sweet odours..." (cow family around the flowers of pink sweet pea) A friend of this family went out to look for the special peas. (okapi and pansies) "Is this pink flower the sign?" "Something smells nice here, too. I feel like I've eaten heartily!" 😊 "Wait a second... The sweet pea might be a vegetable to taste its fragrance?!" I have never bought cut flowers for myself. So I'm looking forward to Noco's flower arrangement day.🤗 Also,  it may be nice to get flowers to enjoy their scents. Pleasant scents can be nutrition for our mind!

  (original image: Thitaree Sawettatat) My schleich animals have been put away in the closet for a long time.   Recently I found them. But sadly, they look unclean. This mature polar bear has brown spots!😲 (👇) The cub is also colored.🥺 (But, we can't see it clearly in this photo.) I decided to wash them. (It looks feeling good!) Using diluted some liquid soap and a (very)  soft tooth brush. I rinsed them with cold water. Then they turned out ... ... like this! They are not perfectly white. But, it is OK because they don't look dirty at all. Also,  the color of wild polar bears are actually cream. This is the right color for them.🤗 I washed other larger animals, too. Now small animals  are waiting their turns! (original image: cocoparisienne) "Ice Bear SENPAI!" "You're so cool!!" (two meerkats beside a mint tree) Their lovely brown spots weren't washed out, and remained intact.😉

  (Feb. 3, 2022) This red apple color (both outside and inside) pansy is named 'hime-ringo.' 'Hime' is a 'princess' and 'ringo' is an 'apple' in Japanese. What a lovely name!🥰 'Hime-ringo' means a 'crabapple,' though... I think this name reminds us two pretty images. A 'lively little princess' and a ’one-bite-size apple!’