Do you know this blossoms?
The last owner of Pension Sakuraya loved Karaoke, and the 1st song which he learned was "Sazanka no Yado" over 25 years ago. And he used to sing this song when he went to Karaoke after that.
That's why his wife planted this in the garden of Sakuraya. This is called "Camellia Sasanqua", "Sazanka" in Japanese.
This season this tree has a lof ot buds, and all of them started to bloom.
By the way I went to the beach this afternoon….
Have you ever seen this flower?
This morning I went for waling to the next beach "Sotoura."
When I departed from Sakuraya at 9:00 am it was very warm, so it was very comfortable for walking today.
At the view point of Sotoura I found out the red flowers.
Do you know this?
This is an aloe.
In Shimoda we don't have any snow, so this aloe can have flowers in winter.
This morning I went to the primary school with my daughter and children for walking.
After we arrived at the school I went to Itado area in Shirahama alone.
When I was walking on the small road in the farmer's field ithe pink tree has appeared suddenly in front of me.
This tree has already had a lot of blossoms and buds.
This tree is called "Kawazu Sakura".
Next month we will have Kawazu Sakura festival around Shimoda.
It means one year would had already passed since last festival.
"Time flies like an arrow."
In Izu peninsula Sakura festival take place from the beginning on February.
This Sakura called "Kawazu Sakura" and this is one of Sakura which bloom early in the year.
We also have some Sakura trees in our field, and I found that one of them has a bud and it is just budding today.
This tree has buds more, so we are looking forward to see a full blooming with a lot of blossome next month.
There are some kinds of cherry trees in our garden.
One of them is called "Kawazu Sakura", which blooms in Feburuary, but this tree is "Oshima Sakura".
Oshima Sakura blooms in the same season of the most famous Sakura in Japan, called "Someiyoshino".
I love the season which Sakura start to bloom, because Sakura tree has blossoms and a lot of pink buds, and it is very cute!
When I went to Shimoda I went to Shimoda park to check the blooming of cherry trees.
This year it has been cold in these days, so Sakura trees started to bloom slowly.
But I was able to see some trees have already bloomed in this park.
There are a lot of cherry trees on the river side in Shimoda downtown, but I don’t know if I can go there soon because we will be busy this week.
As I had to go for shopping I went to the beach after that.
I took this picture at the back of Shirahama shrine in Shirahama Ohama beach.
There is a red gate called "Torii" in Japanese on the rock and we can see Izu Oshima island over there.
Shirahama shrine is located on north side of Shirahama beach, I am showing the another picture taken at the middle of this beach. …..
I went to Shirahama primary school with my son to pick my daughter up after school today.
This is a parking lot near the school.
When I picked my daughter up I found this and took some photos.
There are some Kawazu Sakura trees there.
We had a strong wind today and it made the cherry blossom brawn down on the parking lot.
My children were excited with it and running around this place.
In these days Kawazu Sakura trees have green leaves after blooming..
The best season for Sakura in this region will be finished soom.
Today it was almost cloudy but sometimes we had sunshine.
It was not cold but we had north-east wind, so we didn’t feel to go to the beach.
By the way Kawazu Sakura (Cherry blossom) in our garden has fully bloomed at last.
We are very happy looking this tree in spite of cloudy today.
Yes, we love Sakura very much. …….
Today it was very beutiful day.
When I saw the ocean from our pension I could see Izu Oshima island clearly, so I desided to go to Mt. Nesugata-yama by Cable car with my wife and son.
It’s only 3 minutes by calbe car to get to the top from the cable car station near Izukyu Shimoda station.
As I was thinking we could get very beutiful senery from the top of mountain like this picture……..