Fence on top of a low retaining wall between sidewalk and playground, Sindelfingen, Germany, yesterday morning.
Tag: cherry blossoms
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In a vase on Monday: Ulm Münsterplatz
We were in the really pretty city center of Ulm on Saturday morning, walking around the farmers’ market* in the light snow. Many of the stands were completely covered in clear plastic against the cold. This one was full of tulips and forced cherry blossoms, and I would have loved to buy several bouquets, but they wouldn’t have been practical in our Ibis hotel room, which was comfortable but teeny.
So I wasn’t able to make a flower arrangement this week for “In a vase on Monday,”‘ but to see what other garden bloggers have created today, please visit host Cathy at Rambling in the Garden.
*On the plaza in front of the Ulm Münster (church), which has the tallest church steeple in the world.
Life in gardens: blossom time
“Blossom time in Tokyo,” ca. 1914, a woodcut print by Helen Hyde, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Helen Hyde grew up in the San Francisco Bay area and studied at the California School of Design and in Europe. While in Paris, she was influenced by Mary Cassatt’s early works, which made use of Japanese perspective and pattern and featured the intimate lives of women and children. In 1899, she moved to Tokyo, where she studied woodblock printing techniques. She lived there until 1914.
Life in gardens: last look
As April’s cherry blossoms fade away, here is one more vintage scene.
“Street life in Yokohama park with blossoming cherry trees,” from the photo collection of journalist Holger Rosenberg, who traveled to Japan in 1903, via National Museum of Denmark Commons on flickr.
In Japan this week, the flowers are at their peak only in the most northern regions.
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