These days have been warm like early summer. It might be no wonder because May 6th was “rikka”, the beginning of summer, according to the twenty-four divisional seasons in Japanese calendar originated in China. In my impression, winter comes through gradual cooling from autumn, while summer abruptly comes while enjoying the arrival of spring. Let’s enjoy the greens special to this season together.
Barley are luminous and growing lush.
Wisteria vines and other vines are creeping each other beside murasaki-hanana.
Moss color is brighter: ivy color is deeper.
Not only flowers but also blades are beautiful.
Feel like walking on and on.....with a camera.
御衣黄 Gyoiko at Kasuga Shinen Botanical Garden, Nara City
Gyoiko at Hase-dera Temple, Sakurai City
Talking of green, there are cherry blossoms with green petals. They are double-petaled. When single-petaled flowers are over, double or multiple peatled ones come to bloom, and Gyoiko is the last to bloom at the beginning of May. Due to people's satisfaction already with preceding cherry blossoms and the petal's green color mingling with color of leaves, flowers are hardly noticed. When the center becomes reddish as you see, it is time for them to leave. Cultivation of this tree was started in Edo era (1603-1868) and is seen at about 100 places in Japan.
Wisteria are in bloom: sweet fragrance fills the air.
It's impossible not to find fresh greenery at this time of year.
I got refreshed in the balmy breeze soaked in the shades of green.
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All of your photos are gorgeous!I love lush verdure very much. Maybe I love beauty of young leaves more than flowers. I'm glad your blog and photos depict exactly my feelings towards them.
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My favorite is barley's shot. Have a nice week!
Your photographs are wonderful. They feel cool and refreshing even if the heat of summer is upon you.
ReplyDeleteYour world is very beautiful. I like all the photos you have chosen, the colors and shapes are lovely.
ReplyDeleteThese are lovely images of a gentle spring. You are right, though, summer will rush at us quickly. Here in my part of the world hot, dry summer days will soon turn the world to shades of brown and gold.
ReplyDeleteyour captures are panacea to the Monday morning blues. thanks.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful and restful!! Boom & Gary of the Vermilon River, Canada.
ReplyDeleteSo refreshing and so enchanting, Stardust! Your green is fabulous!! I wish I could be there feeling the balmy breeze of May!! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteA breathtaking look at your world through your superb photos! A lovely tour and such a restful part of your beautiful world! Thanks for sharing! Have a great week!
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That is so beautiful, so verdant and alive. We're finally starting to see some green where I live.
ReplyDeleteHow I feel blissful with these verdant surroundings I could touch! When a well-known Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata returned from his long space mission two years ago, the first thing he mentioned was the fragrance of the grass.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing beautiful and peaceful feeling.
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Although far away, your world is much like my world at the moment. As spring transitions into summer new leaves are forming on trees making the forest a semi-transparent canopy where one can still see between the branches. The brook, iris, twisted vines, moss and barley would be wonderful sights to discover along the various pathways.
ReplyDeleteExtremely beautiful post! I love the moss covered ground and rocks, the twisted wisteria vines and all the peaceful greeness. It's as warm as summer here too!
ReplyDeleteSuch spectacular and soothing photos. Spring is such a magical time, even with all the pollen...
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ReplyDeleteWonderful photos, wonderful spring!!!!
You have right about the seasons. I remember 30 years ago, 1 May, we had the first swim in the sea.
Now it's cold and late June can swim.
The spring in recent years does not last long, sharply Im great warm.
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Hi,Stardust.
ReplyDeleteSo beautiful photos of greens! Now we are really enchanted with new growth, beautiful flowers around us, and early summer coming soon!
I work in Tokyo on weekday. I can't see any green.
ReplyDeleteSo I envy you that you can see and take a many beautiful nature things.
I'll try to explore the nature on weekends.
your photos are simply magical! these are a feast to the eyes.
ReplyDeleteThe flowers, Gyoiko, are really uncommon, or I've never noticed those modest blooms.
ReplyDeleteThan you for sharing these beautiful greenery photos.
what a wonderful sequence of gorgeous shots - beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI love the greenery and the tree roots you've photographed. Those steps invite my eye to do some more exploring. It would be wonderful to walk in Nara at this time of growth. We are under a winter storm warning here in the mountains of CO, so I am especially enjoying your blooming world.
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely blog with beatiful fotos! It is exiting to follow a japaneese garden and the surrondings of it from Norway!
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Helene
Hello Stardust. When I visited Japan, I went to Kiyosato and stayed there for days and we had walks in the forests at some point. I was amazed at the beautiful nature there, so clean, and all so green and refreshing to see.I was able to see the orange maple tree leaves common during the season that I was there. It was so lovely. What a beautiful world you have there, you are so lucky.
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What a lovely blog! And fantastic fotos! It is exiting to follow the Japaneese nature all along from Norway:-)
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Helene
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Hiya Stardust,
ReplyDeleteBeautiful post with lovely pictures.
That pink Wisteria you show?
I have great bunches of that hanging right in front of my kitchen window. I shall be sad when they are over.
What a beautiful post again Stardust. Your photo's are all wonderful, the flowers, the greens, beautiful. I did have a penpal in Japan more than 50 years ago. She sent me beautiful cards of your famous mountain.
ReplyDeleteYou have a talent for taking lovely photos, and such beautiful places and things that you find to photograpy. Lovely post. And, yes, my little granddaughter is an angel and a true joy in my life. Mickie :)
ReplyDeleteNow it is the time when space is the kindest to eyes in one year.
ReplyDeleteFresh verdure seems to embrace me...
ruma
these photo's are just lovely with great angles and light. spring is just so magical with all it's beauty and offerings.
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So very beautiful. I'm jealous that orchids are growing in the trees. :)
ReplyDeleteI can almost smell the fresh colors boil, trees and flowers
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely place to visit. Wonderful pictures. Thank you for sharing… I so appreciate the spring blooms, especially after a long winter.
ReplyDeleteI've never seen young green barley before, only riper one, when I visited my grandparents' village in summer. To my surprise I found fields of wheat and rye inside the city here. It's still strange for me to see this kind of plant in urban area.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos, like usually :)