This year’s cherry blossoms have been a bit unusual. Our three cherry trees bloomed at different times.  As a result, while hanami arrived e...

Although the cherry blossoms in our area are in full bloom, the weather has not been really great; gray and gloomy with cloudy sky and/or ra...

 The young Somei Yoshino 染井吉野 cherry tree in our backyard, which replaced the over 30 some year old cherry tree that was destroyed in the 20...

We presently have four cherry trees in our backyard; 3 Japanese style trees and one native choke cherry tree. (The choke cherry tree blooms ...

This year the cherry blossoms were early. We read it was the earliest full bloom of cherry blossom in Kyoto in 1,200 years. We have three ch...

After we had our first hanami celebration meal of Tako Grill take out , we received some shashimi items from Catalina Offshore products . It...

This is the small "Somei Yoshino" 染井吉野 cherry tree we planted to replace the  30+ year old cherry tree  destroyed in a nor'eas...

Last year, in a nor'easter (winter hurricane) we lost the 30 year old cherry tree that formed a canopy over our deck and was the founda...

Because of a recent Nor'easter, the  30 year old cherry tree   which was the main focus of hanami celebrations in our backyard because i...

A Nor'Easter (winter hurricane) tore through our area recently. Winds gusted in the range of 40 to 60 MPH. My wife was standing in the k...