Monday 5 May 2014
Cherry blossom
The Japanese have cherry blossom festivals. Who can blame them? The pink or white blossom against a blue sky is always an uplifting sight. It tends not to last long. April showers and spring breezes soon dash the petals to the ground, like confetti. I saw a car the other day that had clearly been parked under a blossom tree when it rained. It was covered completely in pink petals, apart from a space on the windscreen that the wipers had cleared. It whizzed past too fast for me to photograph but it actually looked astonishingly pretty, like a carnival float.
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Japanese have the festival, but I guess all the rest of the world like very much them !
ReplyDeleteit's always magic !
saluti
It's been a hard winter and these blossoms are pleasant sight.
ReplyDeleteCherry, pear, apple . . . all of the fruit trees put on a gawdy show to greet the spring. I love a winter in Florida, where I can be warm and outside all the time, but one thing I do miss is the appearance of the flowering fruit trees when spring arrives. The neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio, where I lived for six years had the most spectacular display of Bartlett pear trees lining the streets. Sigh. (Your photo today is, as always, lovely.)
ReplyDeleteIsn't that lovely?
ReplyDeleteA beautiful picture! And I'm smiling as I imagine the petal-covered car.
ReplyDeleteVery pretty!
ReplyDeleteWhat a gorgeous image. Nature is so beautiful.
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