26 April - 19 May 2000
Cherry Blossum Season
A rare beautiful day during Cherry Blossum Season. Most of the time it was cold, raining, or the wind was blowing - sometimes all three at the same time. The park shown above is on the eastern side of The Hill that I walk around or over every day.
The street shown below is another part of my route over the hill; a girls high school is on the left in the photo and I see some of my students as I passby.
This shows the souteastern part of The Hill from the crosswalk at the Taira JR Station (railroad). It not only shows cherry blossums but also what they do to the sides of hill and mountains in Japan. They make cuts so steep that they destabilize the hill and then must reinforce it with some kind of bulwark, this one is less ugly than most because they filled the squares with soil and grass. To the left in the picture was where I stood to take the panarama pictures of downtown Taira. The center of the picture shows the entrance to a shrine that is just out of view behind the cherry trees to the right.
