| Looking at cherry trees
Matt Melton / Kumiko Niijima spring 2003 matt@moonstationfoxtrot.com |
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Japan is crazy about cherry blossoms. Around Osaka, they open in early April. The trees are everywhere, but people flock to parks where they can see them en masse. The thing to do is have a picnic and get drunk under the boughs. Many a haiku has been written in reverence of their transient beauty.