After our first hanami 花見, we were expecting bad weather and rain.  However,  luckily, we had a second nice day of hanami and I made anothe...

Because it got warm quickly, three of our cherry trees blossomed one after the other. The first one is dropping petals already, our main tre...

Recently, I got a new “Jubako” 重箱 which is a tiered square box with a lid for picnic like “hanami” 花見 cherry blossom gazing. I saw this at M...

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...