The Season of Snow in Kanto
The season of snow in Kanto is in March/April. Soon, it is over. The snow season has already started.
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And the Cherries are Weeping
The weeping cherries were in full bloom today. They looked much healthier than last year. Unfortunately, no blue skies today. Fortunately, I could take photos without visitors to the garden. They always need to take selfies with the trees as if they would improve with their ... faces.
Flowers from the museum garden 1
The three stages of a Lotus flower. Last year's seeds have fallen into the water. A new plant is reaching towards the light. Finally, the flower opens to show its beauty: Ogawa Lotus, 大賀蓮 from the Kawamura Memorial Museum in Sakura, Japan. Another beauty from the pond nearby, a waterlily (Seerose, 睡蓮).
キジカクシ科 Family Asparagaceae ツルボ亜科 Subfamily Scilloideae オオツルボ
Going shopping means I am taking backroads with my bicycle. At the roadside, I saw many of these flowers. The discovery of today (April 18, 2020).
Rectangular folded box
You can find many folding instructions for square boxes - I also published one - see here . Rectangular ones are somewhat more seldom to find. I needed one, so I made a simple one by myself. I will show you what I did. Please try and improve it. Paper: When I digitized my books, I cut off the spine so I could use an automatic scanner for scanning the text pages. Usually, I kept the first and last paper pages which often are coloured and/or have some design. They also are a little bit heavier than the normal paper of the books. For making the box below I used such a page. Plan: I want to make a box, 14 cm long, 2 cm wide and 2 cm high. I need the box and a cover for it: so 2 boxes, the first one with the dimensions above and the second one, the cover box, a bit larger with 14.5 cm long and 2.5 cm wide. From a paper sheet, I cut 2 sheets with the following dimensions (box length + 4 times box height). For my boxes, I need one paper with the size of 22cm*6cm and the second on...