Rain, hydrangea and crape myrtle

It is a lull of the rainy season today;I have started writing this post a few days ago. I have spent the morning hours at the lawn pulling the weeds there. 

It may start raining soon again. The rain is always fine drizzle without making big puddles on the ground. Typical rainy season had been like this in the past. It has often been replaced to torrential rains like tropical shower for the past years, causing disaters like floods or land slides. 

After I wrote the phrase above, we had a bout of torrential rain last night. The trend of global warming is still going on, I am afraid.

                                               

We, Japanese, are accoustomed with quiet rainfall for this rainy season. It rains quietly. The raindrop is hardly visible. We could notice rainfall when stretching a hand out of umbrella and feeling fine raindrop on the palm. It is our aesthetic consciousness for this season in a year. The weather change due to the global warming is extinguishing it very soon, I am afraid. Our descendants may read the literature or poem dealing with the traditional rainy season as a kind of aliens.

Hydrangea is the flower typical for this season. One of them in our garden is ready to bloom fully. 

In the back yard, between a Judas tree and a crape myrtle, a summer camellia is flowering quietly as well. It will take a month or so before that crape myrtle bears beautiful flowers.

Some weeds are vigorous betwee those trees and the house. I used to use herbicide

at such a place years ago. But never since I learned about its effect on soil and contmination to us. They won't grow much in September. Not too long from now.

Several years ago, our government has estblished a national identification number system named "My Number" abbreviated as MN below now. Now they are hurrying up linking a lot of functions and personal informations of the people into it. The process is too hasty and sloppy. A lot of errors in the system of MN are being revealed at present. Linkage of our personal informations could be, once they are leaked, utilized for crime. A "single" identification number system such as MN will help dictatorship as well. The history of NAZIS tells us that. 

So I am feeling more swealtering and suffocated with the atmosphere in the society than in the real weather.