Every year Japan goes crazy for a few weeks doing hanami or looking at blossoms, the plum blossoms come first, followed by the cherry blossoms. This year has been quite warm in Tokyo, for winter, and it seems the blossoms are a little earlier than usual...which is very nice. The worst things about this season is the crowds that come to see/photograph and get drunk under the trees. We got to the park early in the morning where buses of people started arriving as we were leaving. It really is such a truly pretty thing to witness, and if you can get some quiet whilst doing so, you really can see why people love to see them so much........
I made this picnic lunch, very Japanese. In fact, I found a great Japanese food site called
just bento which is one of the best food sites I have found lately. A couple of things in the bento above is from the site. The inarizushi, the brown bag things, are full of rice...my goodness, I usually buy them because they are really yummy and cheap, but I thought I would make them this time...takes about 2 hours........I dont think it tastes any better than the supermarket ones.....but good experience! The bento on the left has small meatballs in sweet and sour sauce, tamagoyaki (egg omlette) with spinach, a kind of blanced spinach salad with sesame seeds, and a stawberry....the bento on the right is simply rice with a cooked fillet of slamon crunbled over the top...a staple for mooch who loves it. I slipped a boiled quails egg in there too but he didnt eat it....and fruits....
Here is a small selection of the amazingly dedicated people shooting the blosoms.....
and here is one early cherry blosom tree. There were a lot of small green birds in this tree so it was so pretty with the pink flowers and small green birds...until the mooch ran under the tree and scared them away....um, sorry to all the photographers......we left shortly after that.....
Every year Japan goes crazy for a few weeks doing hanami or looking at blossoms, the plum blossoms come first, followed by the cherry blossoms. This year has been quite warm in Tokyo, for winter, and it seems the blossoms are a little earlier than usual...which is very nice. The worst things about this season is the crowds that come to see/photograph and get drunk under the trees. We got to the park early in the morning where buses of people started arriving as we were leaving. It really is such a truly pretty thing to witness, and if you can get some quiet whilst doing so, you really can see why people love to see them so much........
I made this picnic lunch, very Japanese. In fact, I found a great Japanese food site called just bento which is one of the best food sites I have found lately. A couple of things in the bento above is from the site. The inarizushi, the brown bag things, are full of rice...my goodness, I usually buy them because they are really yummy and cheap, but I thought I would make them this time...takes about 2 hours........I dont think it tastes any better than the supermarket ones.....but good experience! The bento on the left has small meatballs in sweet and sour sauce, tamagoyaki (egg omlette) with spinach, a kind of blanced spinach salad with sesame seeds, and a stawberry....the bento on the right is simply rice with a cooked fillet of slamon crunbled over the top...a staple for mooch who loves it. I slipped a boiled quails egg in there too but he didnt eat it....and fruits....
Here is a small selection of the amazingly dedicated people shooting the blosoms.....
and here is one early cherry blosom tree. There were a lot of small green birds in this tree so it was so pretty with the pink flowers and small green birds...until the mooch ran under the tree and scared them away....um, sorry to all the photographers......we left shortly after that.....
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