Sunday, February 5, 2012

Yellow Blooms


Another sign that spring is near.

Flowers are starting to bloom around Shinjuku. This is a flower we call Robai, or Winter Sweet in English. They usually bloom in January or February.

And they also have a fabulous scent that had me sticking my nose in the bloom and drinking it all in!

15 comments:

  1. How lucky you are to have such lovely flowers in winter ... here it's freezing !!!

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  2. i love the moist look on this.
    what a pretty name to such a beautiful flower.

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  3. How lovely Kaori, not only delicate and gorgeous but aromatic also. Sounds like the perfect spring flower to me. Beautifully shown here!

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  4. Yellow blossoms against a blue sky. Beautiful! There's only one problem: if the flowers are appearing, it means hayfever misery is imminent. Oh, help.

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  5. That is soooo pretty!

    Snow here at last! :-)

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  6. What a lovely shot, and a sign of things to come. Although where I live March and April are our snowiest months, so it will be a while until we see anything like this!

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  7. I thought I recognized that flower. It's been too warm for ours to bloom this year. You're so right -- the fragrance is lovely -- sweet yet clean.

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  8. Lovely flowers, I appreciate them even more because of our weather.

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  9. Oh, how I would love to be enveloped in the scent you describe! Perfect photo with lovely yellow blooms!

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  10. Beautiful and delicate, Kaori. I would like to see such flowers here too...

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  11. this is so very beautiful !


    please have a good new week ahead.

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  12. Beautiful!!! But I thought winter got a late start over there too?!

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  13. We have hardly had a winter in Toronto, but I am not complaining! These blooms are lovely. I can almost smell them from here. :)

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  14. How beautiful and cheerful! I love that they smell sweet too. I bet they lift the spirits of all who see and smell them!

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