The Road Less Traveled

Sakura Viewing

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Well, it’s the beginning of Spring, and in Japan that means pretty much one thing to the Japanese people: sakura. Sakura, if you aren’t aware, are Japanese flowering cherry trees, and they are generally in full bloom for a period of about two weeks in late March/early April. Unfortunately, my mom missed it all by about a week. She caught the very beginning of it, but it’s really most impressive right after the trees hit full bloom. Here’s an example from a picture I took out my window the other day!

Sakura tree outside my window

I don’t really know what else to say about this, so instead I’ll just go ahead and link, for your viewing pleasure, to the photo gallery of the pictures I’ve taken of the sakura. Without further ado, here’s the link: http://gallery.rintaun.net/thumbnails.php?album=4

Enjoy!

Note: Right before this, I finally finished posting my mom’s emails that she sent out while she was in Japan, and I don’t want you to miss them just because I put this up, too. So check them out!

Matthew’s Mama in Japan 3-15

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments

Note: These are emails that my mother sent out each day of her trip here. I already posted the first two earlier, but was so busy during the trip (and have been so busy ever since!) that I never got around to posting the rest. Sorry it’s taken me so long! m(_ _)m Anyway, I’m going to post them all in one big chunk, so enjoy! Also, the first two I posted, I edited just a bit, but these ones are just going to be verbatim. –Matthew

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