(ENG)
Today I went to the ophthalmologist for the first time in two months. The purpose is to see if my glaucoma has progressed.
I left my house at 7:50 a.m. and took the 8:00 a.m. bus, and the bus was packed as usual. This bus, No. 46, runs quite a long distance and also passes in front of the university, so there were many passengers. But I was glad that I was able to get a seat on the way.
The ophthalmology clinic is a bit far from the internal medicine and psychiatry clinics I usually go to, so it is nice to have a different view of the city. I had some time to kill, so I walked around the intersection of Sakai-machi-dori and Nishikikoji-dori and found a dried persimmon in a machiya-style house.
As you can see from the photo, dried persimmons in a machiya house is very wintery.
In the next photo, I took some unusual chrysanthemum flowers. They look like fireworks. I thought this might be a Sagan chrysanthemum. Saga chrysanthemum is a kind of chrysanthemum bred in Japan in the Edo period, named after the chrysanthemum that used to grow wild on Kikugashima island in Osawa pond in Daikakuji temple.
Today I didn't have to wait long for my name to be called and my vision and intraocular pressure to be tested. I was sleepy before I left home today, but by the time I arrived at the ophthalmologist's office, my eyes were clear, so the vision test was a good result. Then it was my turn to be examined. The doctor told me that my intraocular pressure was fine, which was good.
After leaving the ophthalmologist's office, I found some interesting things on my way to the pharmacy. First of all, there are signs in the building. I thought the design was cool and interesting, with a vertical one and a horizontal one side by side.
Then there were also Christmas decorations here and there, and I took a picture of one of the most interesting ones. These are the decorations of an Italian restaurant. First of all, here is Santa Claus holding onto a rain gutter. I enjoyed seeing him climbing up the rain gutter because there is no chimney as expected.
The second one is Santa Claus, his reindeer, and some other animals climbing up a ladder. This was a very large scale decoration, as you would have to go up to the rooftop to make this kind of decoration.
I got some medicine at the pharmacy and took the bus home.
Today was a day that made me feel very much like winter and Christmas, and it was very heartwarming.
(JPN)
今日は２か月ぶりに眼科へ行きました。緑内障が進行していないかどうかを診てもらうためです。
自宅を朝7時50分に出て8時発のバスに乗ったら、バスはいつものように満員でした。この46番というバスはかなり長距離を走っていて、しかも大学の前も通るので乗客が多いのです。でも途中で座席に座れたのでよかったです。
眼科はいつも通っている内科や精神科からは少し離れているので、また違った景色が楽しめるのが良いです。少し時間があったので堺町通りと錦小路通りの交差点を歩いていると町家風の家に干し柿がありました。
写真を見ればわかるように、町家に干し柿っていかにも冬を感じます。
また次の写真では少し変わった菊の花を撮りました。花火みたいできれいです。これは嵯峨菊かな、と思いました。嵯峨菊というのは江戸時代に日本で品種改良された菊の一種で、むかし大覚寺にある大沢池に浮かぶ菊ヶ島に自生していた菊にちなんだものです。
今日はさほど待つことがなく名前を呼ばれ、視力と眼圧の検査をしました。今日は自宅を出る前は眠くてたまらなかったのですが、眼科に着くころには眼が冴えたので、視力検査は良い結果でした。そして診察の番になりました。先生から眼圧も問題ないと言われたのでよかったです。
そして眼科を出て薬局まで歩く途中で、面白いものを見つけました。まずは雑居ビルの看板です。縦書きのものと横書きのものを並べていて、デザインがかっこよくて面白いなと思いました。
そして、あちこちでクリスマスの装飾もあったのですが、中でも面白かったのを写真に撮りました。イタリア料理店の装飾です。まずは雨どいにつかまっているサンタクロースです。煙突はさすがにないから雨どいを昇るのかと、楽しめました。
そしてもう一つは梯子を昇るサンタクロースとトナカイ、あと何かの動物です。これは屋上まで昇らないとこういう装飾はできないはずで、随分大掛かりな装飾でした。
そして薬局で薬をもらって、バスで帰りました。
今日はとても冬を、そしてクリスマスを感じた１日で、心なごみました。
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A lovely area and great decorations!
Glad your glaucoma is under control. I work in a vision clinic, and see a lot of different eye ailements. This one is nothing to fool around with.
Good job with your 5583 @actifit steps for the day. Take care and enjoy!
Thanks. I'll be on my guard and insert the eye drops as the doctor said.
Awesome! Take care!
Wow, this is a very interesting and unique decor idea I would say. Maybe Modern Santa who takes a ladder to enter the house!!! 😅
This is interesting. I have never seen this kind of decoration before.