After having seen the first cherry blossom tree in bloom in the city centre on Friday, the next day I decided it was probably also time to go and check on the ones in a little park in my own part of town - some ten minutes walk in another direction from where I live.
This little park used to be all surrounded by old cherry blossom trees, but it has been rather evident in later years that not all of them were faring well. Now I found that several of them had been replaced by new, small, young ones (which were not in bloom yet, and I did not get any photos of them). But luckily they left two or three of the big old trees at one end of the park, and those are still doing their best to prove that they're not "past it" just yet!
"The beauty of cherry blossoms
lies in their impermanence,
lies in their impermanence,
a fleeting moment of grace."
~ ~ ~
"Cherry blossoms are a reminder that
life is beautiful, even in its brevity."
life is beautiful, even in its brevity."
Linking to Mersad's Through My Lens
I love it when the cherry blossoms are flowering, we get pink and white ones here.
ReplyDeleteAlways lovely to see the first blossoming trees in spring!
DeleteI love your close-ups the best, and how they look against the brilliant blue sky.
ReplyDeleteGinny, it was a perfect day for it.
DeleteI am sure you are familiar with Astrid Lindgren's books. In "Die Brüder Löwenherz" (the German title for the original Bröderna Lejonhjärta) the two brothers end up in Nangijala, at first having a happy life in the Cherry Valley. Your pictures remind me of one of the illustrations in the book, which was one of my all-time favourites as a child - I don't know how many times I have read it, and it is still here on my shelf along with the other books that contributed greatly to making my childhood, many of them by Astrid Lindgren, but also the Narnia books.
ReplyDeleteMeike, I was 18 when that book ('The Brothers Lionheart' in English) was published (1973) and I'm not sure I actually ever read it. As C.S. Lewis puts it in his foreword to Lucy Barfield in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: at that age I probably felt "too old for fairy tales" and not yet "old enough to start reading fairy tales again"... (It wasn't until in my mid twenties that I first read the Narnia stories, by the way!) - I know I saw the Lionheart film in 1977, though (when it was new), at the cinema - and recall that I had some mixed feelings about it (the "double death" thing). Maybe it's time for me to try and give the book (another?) go now. Approaching 70 now, I might be old enough!
DeleteThe cherry blossoms look beautiful and quite dramatic against the deep blue sky. Ours are more or less over. This morning an unpleasant, and unseasonal, very cold wind is shedding the blossoms that remain.
ReplyDeleteCarol, we'll probably be having more clouds and some rain too for Easter here.
DeleteCherry blossom is so beautiful, pink or white. I hope the new trees survive and thrive to give pleasure for many years to come.
ReplyDeleteJanice, so do I!
DeleteAll over the northern hemisphere, there are cherry blossoms. What a nice springtime sisterhood!
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