Hanami #5: White Bouquet

Cultivar & variety identification is tricky for a novice like me and the research is time-consuming but oh so fascinating. With help from the excellent UBC Botanical Gardens Forums & the Cherry Scouts, I learned to distinguish between a cherry blossom & a plum blossom. Soon I hope to return to this and previous posts and tell you exactly what Sakuras we've been viewing. For now, I will think of this cherry blossom as one of my favourites because of colour (white with traces of pink), inflorescence and, perhaps most of all, how it looks against the clear blue sky.

Hanami #4: Under a Pink Sky (Easter Monday)

Hanami #2: Under a Gray Sky (Good Friday)

Hanami, April 9th

#1.
How many pass by
this bus shelter? In a rush,
blind to the pink blooms.

#2.
I sit on the bench
and wait. Not for the next bus -
but for sakura.

#3.
The buses come and go.
I'll stay until ten thousand
pink petals drift down.

Sakura

The first of the season & the prettiest pink. If I were a bee I'd be buzzing in ecstasy all around this pendulous florescence.