Cucumbers

  Cloudy all day. But in Niigata, it is heavily raining and many rivers are flooding and tremendous damage has been done everywhere in the prefecture. 430,000 people had to evacuate. A lot of houses, rice fields and even bridges are under water. Two people were killed, and four are missing. Niigata is a disaster-prone prefecture, where earthquakes have often hit, floods have happened these years, and in winter, snow falls very much.
  In the morning, in an interval of drizzle, I went to Furusato Noen, and picked some cucumbers and eggplants. And in the afternoon, I went out to walk along the Tomakomai river. It had stopped raining by then.