カフェを始める前は毎日の日課だった散歩が開業後は月木の定休日になり、最近は自転車で彦根への買い出しが運動代わりと思って散歩の回数が少なくなっています。日照時間が長くなったのを幸いに「よし、歩こう！」と夕食前にうちを出ました。余程私の自転車姿が印象に残っているのか表に出ていたおばさんに「今日は歩きですか」と声を掛けられ改めてもっと歩かなきゃと思った次第です。すっかり田植えの終わった田んぼのあちこちからグオッ…ゴーオッ…と低い蛙の声。何ガエルかなあ、どうして鳴いてるのかなあと考えながらも耳からの自然の恵みにほっとできました。西の空は太陽と雲の豪快な協演。５月最後の夕暮れのひと時でした。
Walking was my daily routine before my cafe opened and then it became my routine for Mondays and Thursdays which were regular closing days of the cafe since the cafe started. Recently I haven't gone for walking as much as before because I go to Hikone to get food by bicycle both for the cafe and myself and it is an exercise instead of walking. Fortunately, daylight hours are longer these days. Today, I decided to go for a walk before dinner. On my route, a woman who was outside her house said to me " Oh, you are walking (instead of riding a bicycle) today". I thought that I should walk more because I gave an impression to her that I am always riding a bike. While I was walking, I could hear frogs croaking here and there from rice paddies where rice planting was already over. I was wondering what kind of frogs they were and why they were croaking. Hearing these sounds of nature's living things, I enjoyed the time and relaxed. What a beautiful twilight sky in the west! It was a moment on the last day of May.
