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気がついたら素敵な名前を持つ庭に、オリーブの実がたくさん成っていました。
確かこの木は蜂や蝶に頼らなくても、勝手に実が成る種類でした。
植えて翌年は実が成っているのを確認出来なかったので、騙されたんだ、と思っていたら、今年はけっこう成っていました。
去年は花がお馴染みになって来たな、と嬉しかったのですが、記憶している量よりも実がたくさん成っていて、夕方のパステルブルーのベランダでひどく驚きました。
オリーブの花はとても小さくて、金木犀（きんもくせい）より小さい白い花が、花の細い幹1本につき5,6個咲いています。
その静かな感じがとても好きで、時々オリーブの花に気が付いては、白い花が胸に生けられているような気持ちがして、1日口数が少なくなっています。
豊かさというのは、オフホワイトかブランカと言われる色ではないでしょうか？
こういう感じで、たくさん成っています。
そのままにして置くと、黒い実になるんですが、ひょっとしてオリーブの熟した実は黒ではないんでしょうか？
食べようとしたことは無いんですが、時々街路樹に成っている黒い小さな実を野鳥が食べているのを見て、なんとなくそうかな？ と考えています。
こういう博物学のようなことを科学的・化学的に書こうと思いまして、Dance With Scienceというラベルを作りました。
珈琲（フレンチ式でも）やナッツとドライフルーツのパウンドケーキ、エスプレッソ、ベルガモットの紅茶。
そのほか、携帯用灰皿付きシガレット、雨水計、外国製の蜂蜜とジャムの瓶。デジタルカメラ、記録、インターネット。
そういった物を味方に、世界で最も静かで小さなダンスを皆さんと始めようと思います。
かつて、全く無関係な業務なのに白衣を着ていた若者だった私は、綿100%の白衣をクリーニングに出すか、洗濯糊を効かせるべきか、洗いざらしで素知らぬ顔をして香水で誤魔化すべきかを、大層悩んでいた過去があります。
でも大丈夫。
私達には心強い味方のO.先生がおられますし、何より2025年の今では市外局番を回して、帝國ホテルに手配の電話をしておかなくとも、注意されることはありません。
ピーター・ラビットやスヌーピーは出てきませんが、 言語を持たぬ友人達とFriend Shipを提携する歓びに満ち溢れた、Beautiful Daysを確認しましょう。
用意すべきは、
分かるまで何年でも考え続け、観察し続ける「知的態度」のみです。
どうかよろしくお願いします。
Brilliant Rain Morning With Crow Enamel.
20250723 19:18 Dance With Scienceのシンボル楽曲（非公式）を追加しました。
20250724 04:09 文章を直し、本稿をメニューに追加しました。
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Before I knew it, my garden with its lovely name was filled with olive fruits.
I was sure this tree was the kind that bore fruit on its own without relying on bees or butterflies.
I couldn’t confirm that it bore fruit the year after I planted it, so I thought I had been deceived, but this year it bore quite a lot.
I was happy that the flowers had become familiar last year, but there were more fruits than I remembered, and I was greatly surprised on the pastel blue balcony in the evening.
Olive flowers are very small, with white flowers smaller than osmanthus blooming in clusters of five or six on each slender stem.
I love that quiet feeling, and whenever I notice the olive flowers, it feels like white flowers are arranged in my chest, making me speak less throughout the day.
Perhaps abundance is the color off-white or blanc?
I was sure this tree was the kind that bore fruit on its own without relying on bees or butterflies.
I couldn’t confirm that it bore fruit the year after I planted it, so I thought I had been deceived, but this year it bore quite a lot.
I was happy that the flowers had become familiar last year, but there were more fruits than I remembered, and I was greatly surprised on the pastel blue balcony in the evening.
Olive flowers are very small, with white flowers smaller than osmanthus blooming in clusters of five or six on each slender stem.
I love that quiet feeling, and whenever I notice the olive flowers, it feels like white flowers are arranged in my chest, making me speak less throughout the day.
Perhaps abundance is the color off-white or blanc?
They grow in abundance like this.
If left untouched, they turn black, but I wonder if ripe olives are actually black?
I've never tried eating them, but I've seen wild birds eating the small black fruits that grow on street trees, so I'm thinking that might be the case.
I wanted to write about this kind of natural history in a scientific and chemical way, so I created a label called “Dance With Science.”
Coffee (French-style or otherwise), nut and dried fruit pound cake, espresso, bergamot tea.
Additionally, portable ashtray-equipped cigarettes, a rain gauge, jars of foreign honey and jam. Digital camera, recording, internet.
Using these items as allies, I aim to begin the quietest and smallest dance in the world with everyone.
Back then, I was a young man wearing a white coat for a job completely unrelated to science, and I used to agonize over whether to send my 100% cotton white coat to the cleaners, use starch, or just wash it and pretend nothing was wrong while covering it up with perfume.
But it's okay.
We have the reliable support of Mr. O, and more importantly, in 2025, we no longer need to dial the area code and make a reservation call to the Imperial Hotel—we won’t be reprimanded for it.
While Peter Rabbit and Snoopy may not appear, let us embrace the joy of forming a “Friend Ship” with our speechless companions and celebrate these Beautiful Days.
All that is required is
the intellectual attitude of continuing to think and observe until one understands, no matter how many years it takes.
Please do your best.
Brilliant Rain Morning With Crow Enamel.
If left untouched, they turn black, but I wonder if ripe olives are actually black?
I've never tried eating them, but I've seen wild birds eating the small black fruits that grow on street trees, so I'm thinking that might be the case.
I wanted to write about this kind of natural history in a scientific and chemical way, so I created a label called “Dance With Science.”
Coffee (French-style or otherwise), nut and dried fruit pound cake, espresso, bergamot tea.
Additionally, portable ashtray-equipped cigarettes, a rain gauge, jars of foreign honey and jam. Digital camera, recording, internet.
Using these items as allies, I aim to begin the quietest and smallest dance in the world with everyone.
Back then, I was a young man wearing a white coat for a job completely unrelated to science, and I used to agonize over whether to send my 100% cotton white coat to the cleaners, use starch, or just wash it and pretend nothing was wrong while covering it up with perfume.
But it's okay.
We have the reliable support of Mr. O, and more importantly, in 2025, we no longer need to dial the area code and make a reservation call to the Imperial Hotel—we won’t be reprimanded for it.
While Peter Rabbit and Snoopy may not appear, let us embrace the joy of forming a “Friend Ship” with our speechless companions and celebrate these Beautiful Days.
All that is required is
the intellectual attitude of continuing to think and observe until one understands, no matter how many years it takes.
Please do your best.
Brilliant Rain Morning With Crow Enamel.
20250723 19:18 Added the (unofficial) theme song for Dance With Science.
20250724 04:09 Revised the text and added this article to the menu.
