Photograph sent to me from Japan

[AsahinaKimi]

Despite the problems in Japan, there are some things that seem to never change,
like the beauty of the Cherry blossoms

[Terra Alta]

1. That is so beautiful.

Amid all the destruction.. there is still beauty. Thanks for sharing.

[GoCubsGo]

2. How beautiful!

I can smell them now.

[madinmaryland]

3. Error: You can't recommend threads from this forum. Recommended, anyhow.

[alphafemale]

4. my heart is now sated today. Arigato

:loveya:

[MiddleFingerMom]

5. One of my favorite novels, oddly enough, is an action-adventure novel called "Shibumi"...

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...by Trevanian (just the one-word name).
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I recalled this passage set in the early 1940's about cherry blossoms:
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For three days they stayed in an old-fashioned hotel in Niigata,
and each morning they went to the banks of the Kajikawa and
walked slowly between rows of cherry trees in full bloom. Viewed
from a distance, the trees were clouds of vapor tinted pink. The
path and road were covered with a layer of blossoms that were
everywhere fluttering down, dying at their moment of greatest
beauty. Kishikawa-san found solace in the insulating symbolism...
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...On their last day, they remained among the cherry trees later
than usual, walking slowly along the broad avenue until evening.
As light drained from the sky, an eerie gloaming seemed to rise
from the ground, illuminating the trees from beneath and accent-
ing the pink snowfall of petals. The General spoke quietly, as
much to himself as to Nicholai. "We have been fortunate. We
have enjoyed the three best days of the cherry blossoms. The day
of promise, when they are not yet perfect. The perfect day of en-
chantment. And today they are already past their prime. So this is
the day of memory. The saddest day of the three... but the richest."
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