Much Ado About Everything

I have seen a few trees around town beginning to bloom!  Come on guys and girls, let’s organize a watching picnic (hanami).  Who’s up for it?  Check this website first.  They finally updated the site and confirmed there’s stuff happening.  Forecast for bloom – I’m guessing only of Flowering Plum and Whitcomb cherry – is Mar 10 which is like in 3 days!!  Though plums aren’t really cherries, but then we aren’t really japanese either.

After a bit of reading, there are very few of Whitcomb cherries in Vancouver.  The most numerous are Yoshino and Kanzan cherries, neither of which is blooming yet.  I’m guessing one good spot to go to would be on SFU mountain, Centennial park, because there should be space, it’ll be less crowded, and I think most of us haven’t been there often – or ever.  Or Queen Elizabeth Park, which I’m guessing will be crowded.  You may want to go and take a walk alone in one of the many streets that have cherries or in one of the crowded areas, and reserve picnic for a less crowded areas.

So, as far as I see, one can go to view Whitcomb cherries alone this weekend, and wait for the picnic until at least the next one, if not even later.  I’d still recommend taking a day off work later in March, it should be a far better experience when it’s not crowded.

Oh, and do yourself a favour and follow the reccomendation of the guy from memento – check out Nakashima Mika’s song and PV that is related to sakura.  I cry every time I see it (the PV).  I don’t quite know why.  I guess I’m like my mother.  But she sings wonderfully – you can recongize how amazing her voice is when she holds a tone for a long time (e.g. at the end of the verse that goes like Douka kigitachi dake wa); that’s where lesser singers have to use a fill-in or processing.