It was cloudy all day, and toward evening, it began to rain.

 In the morning, I went out for my routine walk along the Tomakomai river.  While walking, I could enjoy beautiful flowers blooming along roadsides. Little yellow flowers like dandelions which we call here "Russian dandelions", a kind of wild roses named "hamanasu" in Hokkaido, various colors of irises, etc. are blooming everywhere. I found a lot of tiny black fruits of cherries in the trees and picked them and ate. They were sweet with a liittle bitter taste. It is summer. It is the best season. I like summer best. But, here in northern Japan, summer is so short, and winter is so long , so cold, and so severe.  

In the evening, it began to rain again.