Our Life on Pacific Islands
2006/03/14
Ume Blossom Time
The ume trees in our yard, and around the neighborhood, are blooming. Tomorrow we'll go to Mito City and take in the Ume Blossom Festival at Kairakuen Park. Ume is usually translated as "Japanese Plum" although they are really apricot trees. The weather should be fine tomorrow and it is reported that the trees at the park are 60% in bloom. I'll tell you all about, with pictures of course, next post.
Our pink ume blossoms.
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14 comments:
Lovely! Looking forward to next post.
Wow…beautiful Ume Blossom, specially for K in the White Day !! ;-)
We’ve kapok tree with large red flowers in here too!!
Ah...that makes me think of umeshu (Japanese plum wine)!
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.........
Good idea moody.
While waiting for the ume pics, I'll just sip on some umeshu over ice ... a bit 'sweet' but nice!
Got mine at Spore Changi Airport and they come in a nice green cylindrical bottle with plums at the bottom.
looking forward to reading your next post :D
yay! pictures! can't wait
ume trees... nice...
Panda
A special request - please dedicate a post on the works of Utamaro. Thanks alot.
anonymous - sure. I'll do a future post on Utamaro.
Everybody: I was just finishing my ume matsuri post tonight and there was disruption (I think with my router) that knocked my browser off line and I lost all my work. So I'll have to do over tomorrow. Sorry for the delay.
eofhk (!) - what Pandabonium exclaimed when his unsaved post disappeared.
Nice looking tree with unique looking flowers. New vocab for too though..Ume..how is it pronounced?
9lives - thanks for stopping by. I'm working on the post right now and should have it up sometime today.
Ume is pronounced oo-meh
Thank you Panda. I look forward to the Utamaro post. Thank you for always willing to share your knowledge.
Panda - yeah waiting for the pics too. fyi, going for kayaking with FH2O this sunday. U'llbe seeing the post on monday I guess..:)
Post is up. May make a few changes, but don't want keep anyone waiting any longer.
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