公園で At the park

 雨の合間の青空を利用して、久しぶりに茂呂山公園に上がってみました。

A nice blue sky for a change from the rains.  We went up the Moroyama Park, since we had not been there for a few months.

登り切ったところのモミジの木々がすっかり新緑になっています。

The Japanese maple trees now have full branches with green and red leaves.

木漏れ日のなかでくつろぐタイガ。午前中の冷たい地面が気持ちよさそうです。

Taiga enjoying the cool grass of the morning in the shade.

公園の反対側の道を通って下へ降ります。平日のせいか誰にも遭遇しないので、東京に住んでいるとは思えないほど静かです。

We descended towards another park nearby, walking through a path on the other side of the Moroyama Park.  Probably it being a weekday, we never saw anyone.  It was so quiet that it was hard to believe that we were walking in Tokyo.

去年の夏頃から使用可能になった新しい草地。芝生が落ち着くまでの数か月は入場禁止になっていました。桜の苗木が何本か植わっていて中央に向かって盛り土になっている以外、他には何の特徴もない公園です。

This brand new park was opened to the public in early summer last year, after allowing the grass to settle for several months.  Apart from the several young cherry trees, there is nothing in this place.  The ground rises towards the centre of the park but that is the only feature.  What were they thinking when they designed this place?

道を渡って向かいの草地にある、もっと枝振りが充実した桜の木の下で休んでから帰りました。タイガの哀愁だだよう後ろ姿。耳の状態から、私がオヤツを出すのを今か今かと精神集中しているのが分かります（というか、私がヒントを得るよう操作している？）。

It was getting warm and we crossed the road to another field where there were mature cherry trees.  Taiga enjoyed the rest under the tree before going home.  Judging from the way she holds her ears, she is concentrating all her senses to see when I might pull out the treat (or, she is trying to remind me).