Neighborhood Flowers and Stone Dogs ~ Beauty of Japan
If you've been following along, you've seen ume blossoms, cherry blossoms, and wisteria. This year, at least. I've shared others in other years, but for all newcomers we'll stick to this year.
There is another one that's out at this time of year. This one doesn't have it's own festival like the others (at least not in this area), but it is still very well thought of and you can see it growing in many peoples' yards.
Here we go, I spotted one on my photowalk. Let's lead off with this photo so it is the thumbnail.
But the one I came across first was this one.
It's called tsutsuji in Japanese. It's a type of azalea that I think is originally from China and Japan and was later exported to Europe and elsewhere. It's a pretty flower. Usually you see solid dark pink or white ones or but there is also a mixture of white and pink that is also common. I'm sure there are other colors, but if so then I don't see them often enough to remember.
Speaking of home gardens, here is a small one I came across:
Most houses don't have a yard, but that doesn't prevent them from enjoying a garden. Often they will fill every open space outside possible with potted plants. While these potted plant gardens don't equal a real garden, they do have their own charm and add some small bits of nature to what would otherwise be boring and ugly concrete.
Some do grow their potted plant gardens to be pretty big.
And some just go completely nuts. There's barely any room left for their car in this next one.
But just because most houses don't have a yard doesn't mean there is no grass to be found. Though often when you do find a patch, it's more clovers than grass. Usually when I am with my kids I pause to look for 4-leaf clovers with them. Often if we focus for long enough we can find at least one. But this time I didn't pause to look. What do you think—did I miss any?
Well, that's about all for this trip outside. I finished the walk at a shrine where I was greeted by this guy:
I took several more photos of the shrine but let's save those for next time.
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David LaSpina is an American photographer and translator lost in Japan, trying to capture the beauty of this country one photo at a time and searching for the perfect haiku. |
The Japanese really know how to make use of the tiny space. And yes as you mention they really have a very nice potted garden usually in their place, no matter how small the space is.
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I miss the beauty of Japan, especially Okinawa so much. The wife always says that if I was healthier, we would move back there without a second thought.
How long were you here? I hope you can come back something.
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I was in Okinawa from 1992-93 and from 2008-2011.
Oh I see, so a few years just recently. Well I hope you can come back. Japan has some problems coming, but it's still a beautiful place to be.
Oh, I love this post! I love being able to see more of Japan. (We're hoping to get there at some point in the coming... year or two). And I love photos of flowers; they make me happy.
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Glad you enjoyed 😃 And I hope you guys can get here for a trip sometime soon!
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👣👣👣 I hope so too!
If/when we do, which city are you in/near?
We'll most likely fly into Tokyo and head to Sapporo to ski, methinks. (Plus pick up a new parkrun on the way in and the way out... somewhere...)
I'm close to Nagoya, which is about 4 hours by car from Tokyo. I've never been to Hokkaido so if you guys make it up that way you'll beat me there!
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Oh my word, that is beautiful. I really don't enjoy gardening. I like the way it looks, but I don't have the patience to spend on a garden like I should. Weeding is probably my least favorite thing in the world to do. That being said, I need to get some flowers in my bed as well as some tomatoes. I want to try to have at least one thing this summer.
I'm not much of a gardener either, but I do enjoy looking at them. I would love to get some vegetables growing sometime.
It's funny because you really spend more time and money tending the veggies than if you were to just buy them at the store. Most of the time anyway.
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nice post! I love this time of the year. Always interesting to see someone else's neighborhood in different parts of the world :)
Glad you enjoyed 😃
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These are beautiful beautiful flowers
I really like them
Thanks for sharing
Wow! Those flowers blooming so well.
Beautiful flowers
Very nice flowers. Oh, I love this post! I love being able to see more of Japan. And I love photos of flowers; they make me happy. Japan has some problems coming, but it's still a beautiful place to be.
Unfortunately, it seems like most countries have some problems coming, especially to our fiat money. But at least we can enjoy the beauty of nature. That will never go away. Glad you could enjoy my photos!
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Wow, the beauty of ornamental plants is always everyone's attraction and I really like to see the beauty of flowers in the first photo
This bush can be safely called the heart and breath of this gray street :)
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