投稿の詳細: ピンクの絨毯　Pink Carpet

今日も暑いくらいのいい天気。
５月の連休のころのほどの
初夏を思わせるくらいの
暖かい一日だった。
一日中剪定の続き。

昨日青い絨毯のことを書きながら
ピンクの絨毯のことを思い出して
いた。まだ私が小さいころだから
４０年ほど前になるのか。
春の頃、田んぼがまだ広がっていて
そろそろ田おこしが始まる頃には
れんげの花が田んぼ一面に咲いていて
今ぐらいの春の花といえばれんげの花
だったような気がする。
ピンク色の絨毯の様だったような。

今はどういうわけかれんげの花を田んぼ
で見かける事はなくなった。

It was very warm and fine today
and it reminded me of the early summer
just like the Golden Week in May.
I was busy in pruning again.

I remembered pink carpet yesterday
when I wrote about the blue carpet.
Long long time ago when I was still
a little boy, I found so many pink
flowers in rice paddies all around
the village where I used to live.
It was about 40 years ago. In Spring
time and just before the people had
started cultivating rice paddies
milk vetches were in full bloom
all over. The spring flower was the
milk vetch at that time and
the scenary was jus like pink
carpet all around.

It's been long time since I have not
seen this flower in rice paddies.