投稿の詳細: 50歩60歩。　Little difference.

20年ほど前一緒に仕事をしていた
方達が東京方面から訪ねてくれました。
当時の上司だったり、親しくして頂いて
いた方達です。その会社を辞めてからも
東京やシンガポールなどで会う機会が
ありましたが、皆さん定年を迎えられて
も忙しく活躍されています。

とても自分たちが60才を越えているとは
信じていない人達で、
まだもっと若かった時の懐かしい話
等で盛り上がりました。

年の話では50歳と60歳でもたいした
違いは無いではないかと、五十歩百歩を
もじって50歩60歩だという話。

昨日は私の葡萄畑を案内してから
峰の原に泊まってワインを飲んでもらい
今日は、私も初めての米子瀑布に行きました。
12キロの山道を車で登り、駐車場から約20分の
山歩き。展望地点からは不動滝と権現滝が
見渡せます。茶屋から不動滝の滝つぼ付近へは
ほんの5分ほど。遠目からの雄大な滝を、下から
見上げると風に水が舞っています。
茶屋で見た秋や冬の滝の様子もまた
見事です。

足が痛かったり息が上がって休んでいた
一行も『行った方がいい』という言葉に
滝壷まで足を伸ばし『行ってよかった』と
感激していました。

行き着くのに少々苦労があるからありがたさが
増し、印象も深いものになるようです。
滝のそばまで車で行けたら便利でしょうが、
秘境の滝は秘境にあってこその
良さと感動がありますね。

また、元気な友人が来たら訪ねたいと思います。

My old friends whom I had worked with
about twenty years ago came to visit me
from Tokyo area. They were my seniors at
the company then. I met them from time
to time in Tokyo or Singapore. They all
retired from their companies but they
are still busy and working in new
companies.

They would not think they are already
over sixty and we talked a lot about
the things that we had experienced when we
had been much younger.

Fifty years old (myself) seems much
younger for sixty years old people but
the difference as the number makes little
difference. A Japanese proverb says fifty
steps and one hundred makes no difference.
Therefore we call fifty steps and sixty steps
makes little difference.

I took them to my vineyards yesterday and
stayed together in Menenohara drinking my
wines. Today we went to up to YONAGO grand falls
which is the first experinece even for me.

After 12km of drive along the Yonaga river
into the mountains, we walked up a path to the
falls for about 20 minutes. From the viewpoint,
we can see two waterfalls, Hudou-taki fall and
Gongen-taki fall. The view was ausome. The we
walked to the foot of the Hudou-taki fall.
When we looked up the fall, the water was blown
by the wind and became splash in the air.
The falls in autumn and winter in the picture
were beautiful, too.

Those friends complaining about the
footache and tiredness were encouraged
to go and watch the fall from the foot of
the fall decided to go and were touched and
enjoyed the views very much. They also found
it worth while going there.

It is accompanied with a bit of pain to reach
the falls which may make the tour and the view
more impressive. If we went to the closer location
by car, it would be much easier. But such
difficult-to-visit falls should stay in such a
remote and difficult location to bring us greater
joy and impression.

Next time when I have physically stronger visitors,
I am sure to take them here.