Japanese outdoor lantern Straw cushion The blue robe and mallet

The blue robe and mallet give it a slightly more masculine

clusters of yellow flowers along the track

all curling foam and deep troughs

celebratory mood through season after season

paper lanterns drifting up into a deep blue sky

Japanese outdoor lantern Straw cushion The blue robe and malletThe garden lantern glowing solar under a hexagonal roof This lantern is a six sided solar garden tr topped with a pagoda roof and a carved finial, its gray weathered finish lit from within so the windows glow amber at night. Around the open light chamber sits a banded body, all raised on a base of broad arched legs, giving it a rounded, lantern house silhouette. The hexagonal roof is the distinguishing feature, its six curved eaves sweeping out above