I have selected some photos from my album, which depict summer scenes from various perspectives. Year by year, we seem to experience calamities from flooding and mud slides that are caused by torrential rains mostly in summer. 

Rice fields in the Jike countryside, northern Yokohama on August 5, 2013

(left) and July 16, 2014. Ducks eat weeds and pests, minimizing the use

of chemical fertilizers and agrichemicals.

Also in the Jike countryside, beautiful sunflowers on July 31, 2014 and kindergarten kids enjoying themselves in the rice fields on July 8, 2015. 

A view from the Tsuruga castle keep, which was originally built in the 17^th Century, in Aizu Wakamatsu city, Fukusihma Prefecture, northern Japan on July 13, 2015.  The five-story keep was restored in 1965. The photo on the right was taken from the top of a 1707- meter high mountain on July 15, 2015.

At the Osanbashi international passenger terminal (left), Yokohama on August 9, 2015. A fishing pond in the Jike countryside, northern Yokohama on September 3, 2015

A summer festival in my neighborhood (left), northern Yokohama on August 21, 2016.  Enoshima, a land-tied island, in Kanagawa prefecture on July1, 2017.

A night boat tour of the lighted industrial area (left) in Kawasaki city on August 15, 2017.  At a park in Kohoku new town northern Yokohama on July 8, 2012.

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