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Hey, I can’t help myself – they’re pretty.
Two more rounds of cherry blossom shots. The daytime ones are from Shinjuku Gyoen, a large former Imperial garden just steps away from the madness of central Shinjuku. It was a drizzly and overcast day, which never lends itself to getting good photos, but the setting was still pretty spectacular.
The nighttime shots are from Chidorigafuchi, a section of the old Edo Castle moat near Kudanshita Station. They have a few hundred Sakura planted alongside the moat and they’re quite lovely, but the real draw here is that the trees are illiuminated at night. This was a warm and clear evening with a full moon, so it was quite a sublime sight to see.
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Kim
March 30, 2013 at 12:21 pmThere is no such thing as too much Sakura
leongsh
March 31, 2013 at 11:16 pmThis. Cherry blossoms always look great in Spring. To welcome the new year. Due to its short-lived flowering season, a reminder of impermanence.
elianthos80
March 30, 2013 at 12:41 pmThis made me cry. In a good way.
Thanks for sharing.
terranearth89
March 30, 2013 at 1:31 pmThe weather looks pretty bad, though. Has it been like that for a while?
admin
March 30, 2013 at 2:49 pmThursday night at the moat was great. Apart from that it's been overcast with occasional rain for a week or so, but still unseasonably warm.
GlassShadow
March 30, 2013 at 9:16 pmKeep them coming! They are so beautiful >.<…I wish Toronto is warm enough already for Sakura to bloom.