Spring 20240218 Kawazu Sakura

Kawazu Sakura is one of the early-blooming cherry blossoms, usually blooming around late January to mid-February. This cherry blossom is native to Shizuoka, but trees have been transplanted out in farm country where I sometimes go to get fresh veggies. The blossoms are a darker pink and slightly bigger than the more well-known Somei Yoshino. 

There's a road lined with the cherry trees and there's a park with more cherry trees and a pond. There are Japanese snack food stalls out when the blossoms are in bloom. There a bridge above the train tracks and there are usually people with serious cameras there taking pics and vids of the train running along the blossoms. I guess the amateur photographers were becoming a problem because the fence was covered with canvas to hide the tracks from view. But there are gaps between the canvas big enough to squeeze a camera lens through. Guards are posted from around 9am so amateur photographers have taken to getting up early to be there to take pics/vids of the train. 

I like going to the park early in the morning because there are fewer people around to get in the way. The Kawazu Sakura blooming signals the start of spring and to look forward to seeing more blossoms blooming soon.