Today It was rainny day but I went to "Ryosenji Temple" in Shimoda, and I found a lot of flowers blooming.
Now "Jasmine Festival" is taking place in this temple, and about 1,000 trees of Jasmine are blooming on both side of a small path.
From today "Black Ship Festival" is held in Shimoda city, so many foreigners were in the city…..
There are a lot of kinds of flowers blooming around our Pension.
This flower is one of them called "Tatsunamisou" in Japanese.
As these cute flowers seems "Nami" (waves) this flower is called Tatsu-nami-sou.
Have you ever seen these flowers ?
This flower is "Fuji", "Wistaria" in English.
In Japan we can see these flowers in April and May.
And we have some festival of this tree in many places in Japan.
By the way today’s my son "Yuuki"…..
It was rainny today and I couldn’t take a photo outside.
So I post a picuture of Sakura that I took a few days ago.
This place is Sakura path along the river "Inouzawa-gawa" in Shimoda.
When I went there it was very cold, and there was nobody.
But I could find only one group who were drinking under the cherry blossoms……
In this season we can see many kind of flowers in our garden.
This flower is "Sumomo" in Japanese, "Damson" or "Japanese plum" in english.
We look forward to eating this fruit in late June.
I’m showing you today’s Shirahama beach…….
4 days ago, "Kawazu Sakura Festival" had just finished, but this time the other kinds of Sakura are beginning to bloom in Shimoda.
I found this flower in our garden today, this sakura is one kind of them, "Yama Sakura", it means Sakura in the moutain.
I could see a beautiful swinging Sakura in the wind.
It was almost sunny in the morning in Shirahama, but…..
My son, Yuuki, haven’t had a good condition yet and he cried many times today, so I took hime to drive to Kawadu town.
Sakura blossoms finish at the end of Sakura festival in this stage, May 10th, everyyear.
But Sakura blossom is late 1 or 2 weeks this year, so we can still see it now.
We went there at around 5:00pm, but…..
Tonight, my son, Yuuki, and me went to Minami Izu town to see Sakura of night.
To tell the truth, we went there last night too, because my son caught a cold, had a bad condition and was very nervous, so I took him to drive to make him better feeling.
When we got there we saw a beautiful view of Night Sakura. Then I wanted to take a photo.
But as I didn’t bring my camera, I couldn’t take a photo of Night Sakura.
So I tried to go Minami Izu to take it again tonight…..
Today it was warm, the weather forcast on TV said that Today’s temperature is the end of March and it will be warmer tomorrow.
When I went to the beach young people were there and they were feeling the strong wind holding their hands like this photo.
Yes, we had really strong wind today. When I was in the beach I couldn’t open my eyes, because the strong wind flied sand.
By the way I found the spring on the way to my home from my daughte’s school……..
According to the local newspaper "Izu Shinbun", Kawazu town declared " Kawazu sakura trees are fully blooming !"
Every year Kawazu Sakura Festival has over one million people to visit this festival.
On last Saturday, February 25th, about 65 thousand people visited a day. It was a 1st record during this season.
By the way did you noticed that the color of Sakura in this photo is different from Kawazu Sakura ?……