pink flower petals

cherry flowers
suffer under the weighs
fresh spring snow

In spring the trees that line the avenue are clothed in pink and white blossom. To see the boughs that were so bereft in the snow become so beautifully adorned lifts my spirits.

Their scent becomes diffuse in the warming breeze and I hold my head high to savour it. When their petals rained down in a steady trickle a few weeks later, I feel like a bride just to walk under them.

a water bassin
fallen cherry blossoms
drift scattered

magnolia buds
on the rainy ground
pinkish carpet

The constant change of sunshine and rain let grow and wither the blossom of the blooming trees. The beauty of the short lived flowers continues to amaze ones heart, even fluttered by the wind to the ground, forming a natural carpet.

 
morgentau * dawndew



hanami - a japanese festival - early and late