Today it was rainy as yesterday.
When it rainy it frustrated me because I can’t go anywhere to take pictures.
Anyway I went out to check out the outside condition and I found two green birds came to the cherry tree next to our building.
Do you know why they came? …….
We have some kinds of Sakura in our garden.
But this tree has already had a lot of blossoms.
This Sakura is one of kinds of Kawazu Sakura which is very famous for blooming earlier than Yomeiyoshino.
But I planted its seed several years ago, in another word, this sakura is raised from seed.
So this sakura is a little different from real Kawazu Sakura.
For example……
In our garden we have some kinds of cherry blossom, and this is one of them, called "Kawazu Sakura".
Every year we have "Kawazu Sakura Festival" in Kawazu town and Minami Izu town on February and March.
However this year this tree has already started to bloom. (I took this picture with my mobile phone. That’s why this picture is not good.)
My friends who is a specialist of cherry blossom said,
"This tree is blooming early in this area."
He has a lot of cherry trees in his field but most of them have only 1 or 2 cherry blossoms.
I think this tree will be fully bloomed at the beginning of February.
I’m looking forward to seeing that.
We have some cherry trees in our garden.
This afternoon my son, yuuki said,
"I want to play with my tricycle outside!
He is boring to play alone in his room and he wants to play outside.
"OK, Yuuki. Let’s go!"
When we went out and I found Sakura tree has a lot of buds on it, and when I was going to take photos I noticed that this tree has already had some blossoms.
Yes, spring has come to Shirahama!
Cherry blossom festival will take place from February 5th or 7th this year.
In winter we have some kinds of flowers bloom in Shimoda.
This is a narcissus which started to bloom.
From December 20th "Narcissus festival" will take place in Shimoda to January 31st.
Let’s get the early spring in Izu peninsula.
Last Sunday we went to Mishima for shopping all together.
I think the last time which I went to Mishima with my family was 2 years ago.
This is a picture over looking Shirahama, which I took at Ogasaki Wing, the entrance of Shimoda city.
It was sunny and gorgeous day, but we had strong wind. So we could see the white waves over there.
We started to go again to get to Mishima city……
I heard that there are some cherry trees "Kawazu Sakura" which have cherry blossoms in Kawazu town now.
As the blooming was very late this winter they are still blooming.
This is a same kind of cherry tree which is in front of the entrance of Pension Sakuraya.
After blooming this tree already has a lof of cherry now. ….
Have you ever seen this?
It’s called "Tsukushi" in Japanese (Horsetail in English).
I took this photo in Minami-Izu town yesterday.
We Japanese feel a spring with this horsetail.
Yes, spring has come in Izu peninsula.
I show you today’s Shirahama beach …….
Minami Sakura (Cherry Blossoms) and Nanohana (Rape Blossoms) festival which started on February 5 was finished yesterday, March 10.
As my wife wanted to go to Shimoda for shopping my son and I went together and we went to Minami Izu town to see the flowers.
In Shimogamo there is a big field of rape blossoms and when we got to this field my son started to run into the rape blossoms. ……
I was surprised very much and couldn’t believe it today. We had a lot of snow here in Shirahama after many years!
When my children went to the school at around 7:00 am it was just cloudy, but it started to snow before 9:00 am and we had 3 or 5 cm snow at last.
It is amazing because even if they have snow in Amagi mountains in winter we have no snow here…..