One of my plans for Golden Week was to trim my garden, where enormous plants have taken root. Some of them were planted deliberately, I’m sure, others were not. It’s not that I don’t like hydrangeas, but those bushes can get very large, to the point of overwhelming everything else in my tiny “tsuboniwa” garden. Thanks to being sick, I couldn’t do as much as I had wanted to, but gardening is more of a slow’n’stead approach anyway.
However, my next door neighbor was much more successful in attacking his own wilderness (the house has been empty for a while). He cut down some of the trees and bushes near our shared fence, and it had a pleasant side effect: My kitchen and bathroom are so much brighter now!
That in turn means that I’ll have to more diligent with my cleaning, too… I wonder how long the new light is going to last, though: plants go surprisingly rapidly in our climate, and I might just be back to square one within a year or so. But for now, I’ll enjoy the new airy feeling – and keep cleaning!