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    Hooded Merganser Beauty
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    Hooded Merganser Beauty

    Hooded Merganser Beauty

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    • We kept walking, exploring the residential neighborhood. I thought these bright colors were fun: red, yellow, green, and blue.
    • Scott and I continued walking to the former home of a famous author, Fumiko Hayashi (1903-1951), who lived in a traditional Japanese house with garden.
    • Long strips of dyed cloth were hung over the river for a weekend festival celebrating the time when kimono silks were rinsed here.
    • We enjoyed putting our sniffers right up to the source.
    • Saturday, Feb. 8 was the opening day of the Plum Blossom Festival at Koishikawa Korakuen and other gardens in Tokyo.
    • A straw belt is wrapped around pine trees like this one in the fall. The warmth attracts insects. In the spring, the belt is removed and burned. (But that knot - how fun! It has five loops, just like the characteristic five petals of a plum blossom.)
    • The prior warm weather had caused many buds to open.
    • And creamy whites, with touches of red!
    • These blossoms had several layers of petals. The garden has 20 varieties of plum trees altogether.
    • By midnight, 11 inches fell.
    • "Please come again," says the sign. And I surely will. Being able to visit the garden through all the seasons is wonderful.
    • The ushers wore a traditional short coat (happi) that featured a stylized illustration for rice, a staple of the Japanese diet and common offering at Shinto shrines.
    • This scholar is said to have loved plum trees and so many are planted here.
    • Absent Friends
    • The white torii gate shone among the shadowy green trees.
    • Chrysanthemums marched in tight formations near the entrance at this and other gardens in November.
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