Ominami-san said ‘Japanese people love flowers’.  This might even be an understatement, but it’s really not surprising.  The vegetation around Kamiyama is changing rapidly, the mountains are now plump and green, the insects are beginning to open their compound eyes, the flowers are blooming.  The weather pattern is distinct and inevitable; one or two days of hot sun followed by one or two days of cold rain.

This weekend the sun was hot.  Cellulose was strained as bees and humans swarmed around the flowers…

Japanese Wisteria or Fuji.  The smell was incredible, like grapes.