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Galveston

Thank you for visiting my blog. Yesterday, the total number of visitors reached over 50,000. It was really a perfect birthday present from all of you!




Galveston Island State Park
I visited this island just a few days before the hurricane Ike hitted and destroyed the whole area. I was shocked to see the photos of flooded roads and houses after that, which my host mother sent me. I could't believe them from the sceneries I saw; peacefull and quiet places full of sunshine.

Texas still has big wilderness. One reason for that might be the huge hurricanes.

タカの渡り

Smith Point Hawk Watch Tower
A book to enjoy hawk watch was finally published last week, witch has some of my illustrations in it.
Last year, I visited several hawk watch points in Japan for that book and I loved the hawk watch style birdwatching; sitting at the same place and watching the sky. So in Texas. I ask my host mother's birder friend to take me to Smith Point.

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「タカの渡りを楽しむ本（BIRDER SPECIAL）」　久野公啓著　文一総合出版　2520円
白樺峠、伊良湖岬、武山でタカの渡りを観察したときの体験記やタカ見グッズの絵などの挿絵をわたしが描かせてもらいました。大きな書店ででものぞいてみてください。