Lily of the valley
The trees are bursting into leaf now.Japanese maple
Rose
I took these pictures about a week ago.
They are growing day by day !
It's sunny today.
The sky is blue and the air is fresh.
I can see pink color of Chinese milk vetch in the rice field.
Fresh leaves of various trees are coming out in the hills too.
It's the season filled with energy of many plants.
Ha-na-zu-o
When the cat's away, the mice will play.
Let's comfort while a man who we think of unfavorable is away.
We can relax during his absence.
There are lilacｓ in the garden of my next door．
At first I didn't know the name of this flower， so I asked about it ｔｏ the owner of this plant．
She didn't know the name either．
Visiting ａ blog， I found a flower similar to this．
And I knew its name．
This flower ｉｓ like Hyacinth, isn't it ?
New leaves of persimmon tree are growing day by day．
They are very fresh to see！
Dandelion
A black homeless cat was hunting something in the grass field.
As soon as noticing me, it ran away.
Ha-na-ka-i-do-u
There is no new thing under the sun.
Creating new things seems to be very difficult.
We are following the elders and sometimes add a new one to the things that have continued for long.
A cherry tree by the pond
There is a pond near my house called 'O-i-ke'.
We use the water for farming.
Without this pond, we can't grow rice-plant.
I took this picture the day before yesterday.
The petals of cherry blossoms were falling down to the ground or the surface of the water.
Flowers of strawberry
These flowers of vegetable are blooming in the vegetable field now.
The temperature is becoming high day by day and it rained much much.
So the vegetable are growing well as well as grasses.
Broad bean; (So-ra-ma-me)
Radish; (Da-i-ko-n)
Welsh onion; (Ne-gi)
The cherry blossoms began to scatter.
They were falling down to the ground by the breeze, so the lane looked pink like this picture. 
From a tower bell
Trunk of an old cherry tree
At Ko-u-ra-ku-e-n
The nearer the church, the farther from God.
I don't know the meaning of this proverb clearly.
I 'm not sure whether my interpretation is correct or not, but
there is a proverb similar to this one; 'The foot of the candle is dark.'
It stopped raining now but it has been very windy since last night.
It is blowing like a typhoon.
The cherry blossoms in full bloom now will fall to the ground by this strong wind.
By the way, I took these pictures of Magnolia the other day.
It is in the yard of my friend.
U-jyo
On April 8, I went to Ko-ra-ku-e-n which is one of the Japanese three noted gardens; (Ka-i-ra-ku-e-n at Mito, Ke-n-ro-ku-e-n at Kanazawa and Ko-u-ra-ku-en at Okayama ) to enjoy seeing cherry blossoms.
The flowers were in full bloom and were very beautiful.
Regret to say, the weather wasn't so good.
Besides the heavy wind, yellow-dust; ( ko-u-sa) from Chinese continent fell very heavily.
The amount of the dust was so heavy that we couldn't see the scenery very well and the sky was not clear at all.
So I couldn't take pictures of cherry blossoms very clearly.
Lots of white flowers are in full bloom now.
I’m not sure what this tree is, but it may be a plum tree.
The picture on April 5 on this blog is part of this tree.
