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    Good morning!   April 8 is the Flower Festival commemorating the Buddha’s birthday. It is the time when all kinds of flowers start to bloom, which bear fruit in the fall. The legend is that the Buddha walked … Continue reading

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Cherry Blossoms

    Good morning!   We have a bright sunny Sunday with many flowers – lilacs, redbuds, forsythia, cherry, and so forth. Garyo sent me pictures of Zuioji with cherry blossoms the day before yesterday, so I posted them in … Continue reading

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Cherry Blossoms Blooming!

                            Kawazu Cherry (earliest blooming) taken by Mr. Noriyuki Otsuka in his garden Video by Mainichi Shinbun: http://mainichi.jp/movie/?id=921745944002  

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Enjoy Exquisite Scene and Singing!

    Following the previous photos of Kawazu-zakura (Kawazu Cherry), Mr. Noriyuki Otsuka kindly sent me and JUMP (Japan United for Ministry of Peace) listserve members the following one with a mejiro (Japanese white-eye, Zosterops japonicus) whose eyesight aligned with his … Continue reading

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Blossoms Blooming!

    Mr. Otsuka kindly presented the following flowering pictures blooming in his garden, Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan (South West of Tokyo in Izu Peninsula). Sakura (Cherry Blossoms) are the representative flowers of spring. Kawazu-zakura grown in his area (first pictures) … Continue reading

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Flowers/Fruits

                                 potato flower           radish flowers         carrot flowers                           … Continue reading

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Buddha with Flowers

                                                       

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Flowers

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Flowers

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