More Cherry Blossoms on Sawtelle
I don't know if you give a shit like me, but I like these a lot. You can see these from far away. If you click through the photos, I like how one has a cherry blossom tree within their small front yard, I'll try and pay attention to what their lawn looks like when the leaves fall. I bet it'll look cool. Their yard gets a high rating for the tree in the there this week. After it dies off and the flowers fall and it's forgotten, we'll see how high the rating will be. Most of the images are from Stoner Park. If you go there, there's cherry blossom trees lining the entire park. The others are from random yards and one is from the Buddhist Temple. It's where we photographed Puffyamiyumi.
posted by gr @ PERMLINK: 12:44 AM
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Every year as a child, I would put my
Japanese girls’ day dolls up along with
the peach blossoms from our backyard.
However, I really didn’t learn about the
Japanese appreciation of nature until
later in life and after I went to Japan.
Every morning in Tokyo, I would walk
to the train station on my way to work
and see the change of the seasons
right in front of me. I tried to memorize
the intensity of colors in my mind
because L.A. is so dry compared to
other cities in the world.
There was a little park nearby with
a lake and a trail with cherry blossom
trees all around it. From far away,
the trees looked like a sea of white
and pink cotton candy.
While walking around the lake you
could see the groups of people on
their red cloths and eating bento
celebrating the bloom of the
cherry blossoms.
One of my friends told me that it was
popular to see the cherry blossoms at
night. Because they were white and pink,
and if the park had the lights on,
the lights would reflect off of
the blossoms.
Another favorite thing about these
seasonal occasions is that they all
had a special type of desert, candy or
food to eat during these times. cherry
blossoms and peach blossoms had
pink manju with edible leaves
wrapped around them. My favorite is
the Momiji Manju. The momiji is a
type of fall leaf and the manju was
in the shape of the leaf.
I love celebrations of nature. They
seem to bring people back to the
basics and they just seem so uncontrived.
I used to live near Stoner for years and never noticed them. Cool.
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