雲の切れ間から、いく筋もの光が畑へまっすぐに降りてくる。トウモロコシは日ごとに背を伸ばし、葉先までいきいきと張りつめている。茅葺きの屋根越しに広がる夕暮れの空。風にのって、夏のにおいが一日ごとに濃くなっていく。さあ、いよいよ夏のはじまり。
English
Through a break in the clouds, shafts of light fall straight onto the vegetable patch. The corn stands a little taller each day, every leaf taut and alive to its tip. Above the thatched roof the evening sky opens wide, and beyond it the mountain ridge folds soft and blue into the haze — corn in the foreground, the old roof, the hills behind, and the light coming down over all of it at once. The smell of summer rides in on the wind, deepening by the day. This is how it begins — high summer, almost here.
