Early green-up

Landscape has been greening up rapidly like a magic.

Almost all of the tree buds open at the same time, painting the landscape 

various different shades of soft green.

This happens earlier year by year recently.

Kasugano-enchi Park, April 9th 

Appearance of new leaves, unfurling colors and shedding light,

is full of hope and possibilities.

A haiku poem from Ukraine, however, made me look at the early spring trees

- the mixture of soft green, khaki or olive drab, yellow and white -

in a different angle.

This spring 

Even the trees are wearing 

Military uniform

(Vladislava Simonova) 

During the Sakura season when pale pink blossoms are all around, baby leaves

 could be overlooked.

Umami Hills Park, March 28th

Dandelions along the wooden steps and around are not just another ordinary scene.

Purplish-pink little flowers of Mitsuba-tsutsuji, or Rhododendron dilatatum,

would look less prominent in the overwhelming presence of Sakura.

It is the early-blooming azalea of which bloom time coincides with Sakura

and is endemic to Kanto to Kansai regions.

April 8th

In the meanwhile, green colors grow brilliant and deep.

Yellow and white come to look clearer in the deeper green.

紫蘭 Bletilla striata

Japanese Maples

Blades of Irises

Weeping fern, Lepisorus thunbergianus, on Camphor

Young leaves of Camphor

Though it's still mid-April, land is already in the attire of early summer green.

Sunlight feels strong on sunny days except for the time when being covered in 

yellow dust from the continent.

Linked to Mosaic Monday