It has been a spectactular cherry blossom season this year. The blossom, true to form, only lasted a short time but the warm weather couldn't have been better. From memory the blossom started appearing around Tuesday the 5th of April and continued until around Sunday the 10th. Sunday's weather was very windy. It blew a lot of the blossom off the trees and the green of the spring started to appear This signaled the beginning of the end of the cherry blossom. This stage of the Cherries growth is called Hazukura by the Japanese. Literally "Leaf Chreey Blossom".
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