Yozakura - 2008

At about 10pm tonight, I went to the park above my home to see the cherry blossoms in the evening lantern light.
The sakura were beautiful.To view my slideshow, click on the picture below:
The whole cherry blossom viewing is really wonderful. The blossoms really do blossom and die soon after. This has always been heavily symbolic of the fleeting life we all lead. We live, we bloom then we die. All the lives is born to die. But the beauty and the glory is in the life.
The Japanese people ceom out and drink under the cherry blossom trees. They call the daytime viewing 'ohanami' - viewing the flowers. The evening experience is called 'yozakura' - evening blossom. This is when the drinking gets donw. The temperature in Japan is also quite nice and cool at this time of year. It is not cold like the winter and not yet humid as in the summer. a perfect time to gather with freinds in a park and just relax, surrounded by natural beauty.
Everyone hangs out together and it's a wonderful experience.

Oh, man, I was drunk writing that one.