I already wrote about sakura (cherry blossom) fashion. Now here are some snaps from our annual picnics (hanami) under the cherries.
Last weekend, the peak of the flower experience, we went to Shinjuku Gyoen, a huge, well-kept park near Shinjuku station, with many families from Arno's school, Willowbrook. Crowds lined up outside the gates to get in.
Blaine took this gorgeous shot that expresses the pure hanami experience of picnicking beneath the boughs.
Arno took charge of my camera and delivered this self-portrait...
... and a shot of his parents. I am drinking a can of hot green tea purchased from a vending machine.
Lucinda and Arno
The finale to this year's hanami was in Kinuta Koen (Kinuta Park) in Sendagaya-ku, Tokyo, at the Willowbrook spring picnic. Amazing trees!
An elegantly dressed older lady brought out to gaze at the blossoms.
And Arno's Take/Takenoko (Bamboo/Bamboo shoots) class this year.
Happy spring!
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