angelface, thank you very much for your comment.
I was very happy I could visit the rose park with my daughter. Because she's bringing up roses, too.

The chrysanthemum exhibition is held every year in Fukuyama castle. I also visited this year. The chrysanthemums which could make every effort were in bloom and  beautiful.

Good morning, or maybe it is Good Afternoon where you are.

Thanks so much for sharing your visit to the chrysanthemum exhibition.   Beautiful pictures.  They are one of my favorite flowers. They always last so long.

It is so nice to have you back with us.  You were certainly missed.  So happy that you are looking so good and feeling good, as well.

Joy

Lovely flowers, Sachiko and thank you for posting the flowers and the one of you and your daughter.

I love those beautiful roses.  The "Mums" are nice.  They are so much larger than the ones we see in our area.

Good morning!

Joy, angelface, Jean, thank you very much for your comments.

There are a lot of fanciers of chrysanthemum in Fukuyama city, and each individual is bringing up much.
More more chrysanthemums were exhibited in the site of Fukuyama castle.

The rose called "Fukuyama castle" is planted in a beginning of the path to Fukuyama castle.　And here is in front of the stone wall built up 400 years before.

Sachiko.  More beautiful flowers. Must keep the people cheerful just seeing them. Would help around here at this time. Now very wet and dreary out.
How I love those old Japanese Buildings. Like the UK. and their great homes and Castles. Amazing how they all still look so beautiful after hundreds of years.

Nothing like that being built now and so what will people have to look on hundreds of years from now. I always think that when I see them.
They are ready to spend Millions of Pounds next year taking care of Buckingham Palace so maybe that will still be standing.

Be wonderful if Sato could be home for New Years. He has all our wishes.

Such lovely flowers again, thank you, Sachiko! I too miss Sato and wish him well.

JEANNE P.....
...we have a few castles scattered around here in Dorset UK....but as far as I am aware, no Stately homes...yet where I used to live in Bedfordshire, we had some Stately homes but no castles...

SACHIKO....
....I like how they named a rose, after the name of the castle....

JeanneP, angelface, Vanilla-Jackie, thank you very much for your comments.
There are a lot of fanciers of chrysanthemum in Fukuyama city, and each individual is bringing up much. I have visited European castles including the United Kingdom, too.

I sent a message to Sato in Line, but there are no answers yet.

Here I AM !!    (Sato).  To my regret, it is hard to write more.  But I can read your postings. I have no nice plctures of flowers from hospital.

Sato, I'm very happy because you can access here, and you write a comment. Please get back early.

halkel, I'm truly sorry I forget to write thanks on a comment from you.

Sato good to see you are looking in.  We miss you. Hope the time comes that you are able to post even past photos, they are always a joy to view.

Sachiko I am unable to keep track of the different roses but they are all beautiful. 

Good morning Sato and all the friends who post here.

Sato, so good to see your name pop up and see your message.  Just want you know that you and your beautiful flower pictures are very much missed.   Hope your health will improve very soon. 

Sachiko,  so good that you are back with us. 

Joy

Good morning!
It's very fine today in Fukuyama.

Jack, Joy, thank you very much for your comments!
Since my rehabilitation at my hospital, I was taking pictures all the while. And I'm happy that I could just post now those to S&F.

Good to no Sato is in contact even if just one liners. Feel he will be back with us soon.

Add me to the cheering squad welcoming you back Sachiko!  The roses & "mums" are gorgeous, thank you for sharing the beauty with all of us.  Love the photo of you & your daughter.... you both are so pretty, your smiles are alike, can see the joy in your faces. 

Glad you can read the posts, Sato, we can talk to you & know you are there!  Hope your wife is well and still able to take her lovely flower photos. 

I am ready for sleep, been trying to clean out the RV and put things away, raked 4 large bags of leaves and filled the dumpster with dead mums... not like the beauties in your photos, Sachiko, but little blooms that tolerate our wind and weather.  Lots of jobs to get ready for winter.    Shirley

Shirley, thank you very much for your comment. I'm very glad to be able to post my photos here now. I also hope Sato can post his photo early.
My husband is doing the work which isn't usually done because my body isn't thoroughgoing yet.

It was warm today and was very pleasant day. Flowers of Camellia sasanqua bloom so much in my garden.

what great photos of the camellia and the camellia woman
Here blossoms were dried by the dry winds we had last week - that caused the fires to propagate so fast - and now they are drenched in the heavy rain and the cold thunderstorms that will plague us for the week end.  They even predicted snow on the mountain tops!.

Your winter seems sunny enough Sachiko.

So P bubble, thank you very much for your comment.
About me, I am glad with the camellia woman. It was also warm well openly today.
Flowers dried by the strong, dry wind and was serious that the wind caused a fire.

My grand daughter Maggie painted this picture of her sister Maeve

Sachiko, you have a large beautiful garden and thank you so much for sharing it and your picture!

Sandy, that is a creative painting, is there anyone is your family not blessed with creativity?

My grand kids are all
pretty creative,  except one.   And
she is the youngest   (13)  but
has other gifts that make up for
her lack of being creative.   

Maggie,  who painted that picture, is
in her Junior year of Maine School of Art..
She is an incredible portrait artist,
using various mediums.   

I love watching the Grand Kids as they
are growing up,  in times that are
very,  very different then what
we experienced.         

Sandy

Sandy that is a wonderful painting.  Quite a talent.   I was no good at even stick people, and even my handwriting is a mess.

I wasn't good in Art at school either.  Could do a beautiful side view if a face and beautiful shaped legs on the models but that was it. I have always been good doing carpentry work and specially good laying brick . Can cobble shoes. Hate painting.. Should have been a Chef. love that. Started at about 6.  My father I followed on all of it. Mother couldn't cook but could design, and put together all clothing. Even mens suits.   We find ourselves watching the grandkids to see what they are going to like doing.  Seems with Great Grands it is more into Technology now.

Sandy,  how fortunate Maggie is so talented.  I would love to be able to do any type of art--absolutely no talent.

Sandy, Maggie is very talented.  I think I can draw a relatively straight line, but that's about it.  I could sew things made of gingham where I had straight lines, but I really had/have no talent for sewing.  I did a lot of counted cross stitch until the computer took over.  Arthritis contributed to that downfall too.  The younger generation does more on the computer and phones and I doubt any will have any hand craft ability.  I miss seeing that because my dad was of a generation where you fixed something if it was broken.  Today, people buy new!

Mary Ann