This was actually pretty much exactly where we held the GEOS party
They do have tulips in Japan.
Well, I kind of got a shot of cherry petals falling...
This is basically where my jog usually starts...
Ambulatory Finale
Week 47 (Part 2)
Well, picking up from my little talk about jogging and the wee hours, the rest of the week was nothing too special. The cherry trees started to lose their leaves, fewer people were in the park every night enjoying hanami parties and, finally, the cherry trees sprouted leaves and finished the business of blooming once again. I was a little worried all weekend because I had informed a student that the trees still had their flowers (mostly) only to discover that there were very few still blooming the next time I was in the park. He told me later on that his party ended up being fine.
As it turned out, this year had been a spectacular year for cherry blossoms. This was due mostly to a cold snap that hit a few days after the trees start blooming. That drew the season out into about two weeks instead of the usual week and a couple days.
Sweet. I wouldn't have known of course, but a student informed me of this fact...
Just to reflect for a moment, let me a share a hard hitting metaphor:
Sakura trees are basically nature's premature ejaculator.
Many other flowers bloom over short periods of time, keeping a rather low profile, especially for plants like the crocus. However, they species or genus usually seems to stagger it's blooming over time, so you may have a few crocusses every few days or so. Sakura trees don't want any of that shit. They just blow their load in one huge display for like a week, if you're lucky. Then that's it. They grow leaves and go about the business of looking like every other tree on the block for the rest of the year.
Hell, I didn't even know which trees in Koganei Park were Sakura trees until they started blooming.
Which is another misnomer actually. We call em' cherry trees in English, but they don't actually produce any fruit. Just like a premature ejaculator. Get it? Huh? Yeah? You know what I'm talking about?
Yeeeeeahhhhhh you do.
Work went fine throughout the week and the weekend involved, of course, Rock Band and Malaysia planning. Other than that though, not too much.
Man, I thought this week was a lot more exciting, hence the two posts. Guess I was wrong. Well, enjoy the end of the Hanami photos! I tried to get the classic Japanese view of cherry petals floating of the trees in a giant cloud, but it just wasn't windy enough. Nuts!
Sad that Hanami is long over when he's writing this...
Ian "Mello Yello" Cantello
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