投稿の詳細: 高原の秋　Autumn in highland

昨日は須坂市内で
菅原文太さんの講演会が
あった様だが、私は峰の原高原に
いた。秋の七草ウォークという
催しがあったのだ。

冬には雪の積もった高原を
テレマークスキーで歩くのだが
雪の積もる前の姿も見ておきたかった。

頂上を目指す山歩きと違い
山野草を見ながら、説明を聞きながら
の高原歩きで、一つ一つの草花に
興味を示す詳しい参加者がほとんどで
素人の私には、まるで豚に真珠
の様なものだった。

書き留めた草木や花の名前が
30ほどになったろうか。
生態系の微妙なバランスや
高原での風力発電等の
大規模開発の及ぼす影響についても
話が及んで、興味深かった。

これで、夏と冬だけでなく
春と秋の高原の魅力も少しは
知ることができた。

There was a lecture delivered
by a famous actor Bunta Sugawara
in Suzaka but I was in Minenohara
Kogen Highland to participate in the
highland walk event watching natural
flowers.

I wanted to see how the highland
looked like before the snowfall
would cover everything underneath.

Different from the mountain walk to
the peak, it was a kind of hi-king
to see the native autumn flowers
and trees. Most of the participants
were lovers of natural flowers and
were very knowldgeable showing
keen interest in each flower and
explanation. I was as if an outsider
in such enthusiastic people.
In Japases saying, we call it
'a pearl for a pig.'

Even though I wrote down about thirty
names of flowers and trees and I was
interested in the explanation of the
ecological balance in the mountain
and the influence of a big scale
development in such an environment
like wind farm development.

Now I have experience not only
the beauty of summer and winter of Minenohara
Kogen highland but also pretty and precisou
sceneries of spring
and autumn of the highland.