夏日が続くとはいえ、まだ海の水は冷たい。白砂が延びるこちら側一面に浜昼顔が咲いている。青い海と白砂と、ずっと向こうの山並み、そして青空と。見方を変えればこれだけだと実に殺風景な景色だ。そこに浜昼顔を添えるとパッと辺りが華やいで景色が一変する。薔薇や牡丹、芍薬では似合わない。浜昼顔だからこそ景色に溶け合うのだ。白砂の途切れる辺りに大きな岩が横たわり、浜昼顔が垂れ下がっていて、淡いピンクの五芒星の様に並んでいる。夏近し。もうすぐ騒がしくなるよと話しかけてくる様だ。5月から6月、梅雨の前頃に咲いて、やがて実を結ぶ。その実は海流に乗ってどこかの浜辺にたどり着き、また花を咲かせて景色を変えるのだ。

Although summer day continues, the sea water is still cold. All over the side where the white sand approaches, beach bindweeds are blooming. The blue sea, white sand, and the mountain range far beyond, and then the blue sky. If you change your perspective, these alone are a truly desolate landscape. Adding beach bindweeds there makes the landscape suddenly vibrant and colorful. Roses, peonies, and irises wouldn’t fit. Only beach bindweeds blends in with the scenery. Along the path through the white sand, large rocks lie here and there, and beach bindweeds hang down, lined up like pale pink starfish. It’s summer. It seems to tell us that it will soon be noisy. From May to June, they bloom before the rainy season and eventually bear fruit. The fruit rides on ocean currents, drifts to some shore, and makes flowers bloom again, changing the scenery.