During my walk today… a school that pretty much every child wants to go to #osaka #anime #esports
Day 10: 📷 train (@starrwulfe) #mbApr
The Nintendo Train through the cherry blossoms 🍄👸🚋🌸
It has been mostly cloudy, but I have gotten a few 🌸 cherry blossom shots and put them up on Flickr if you wanna have a quick scroll www.flickr.com/photos/sa…
Day 9: 📷 crispy (@rom) #mbApr
Karaage (fried chicken) with some sakurai mochi and hanami dango 🌸🍡
It is SOOOO windy out! 🌬 There are cherry blossom 🌸 petals on my balcony I am on the 12th floor!
Day 8: 📷 prevention (@anniegreens) #mbApr
“Memory Park” is full of cherry blossom trees and a hanami spot for families in my neighbourhood. 🌸 Lovely, no? But notice the low building just beyond the trees? On the other side of the cranes? That is the Osaka Detention Center. Prevention.
Deb Chachra (@debcha@mastodon.social / @debcha.bsky.social) on CBC Spark. She hits a bunch of the main points of her great book “How Infrastructure Works”. Worth a listen!
Day 7: 📷 wellbeing (@ridwan)
It’s been ☁️ overcast ☁️ every day during this cherry blossom season 😞 but finally we got some blue sky. An old friend from Kelowna who lives in Fukuoka came up to 🚅 Osaka to visit us for the day.
Being together 👫
Under the sakura trees 🌸
We share well-being 🥰
Started listening to Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky 📚
Day 6: 📷 windy (@Miraz)
I went out to try and capture something for today’s @challenges theme, but it is just not that windy 😫 Staying within my self-imposed cherry blossom rule, I got a shot of a single petal in a pond rippled with a gentle wind. 🌬🌊🌸
Day 5: 📷 serene (@chiawase)
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Just sat and watched this scene for a while this afternoon. Many feels from real life … IYKYK
Day 4: 📷 foliage (@pratik)
Although we are only at something like 60% bloom for the whole region, some varietals bloomed last week. Now the leaves 🍃 are poking through the blossoms 🌸
There is still time for 花見 hanami flower-viewing. Then comes 葉っぱ見 happami leaf-viewing 🍻
Finished Northern Ireland: The Fragile Peace by Feargal Cochrane 📚
A very readable, yet comprehensive, history of Northern Island over the past 100 years. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Day 3: card 📷 (@val)
Some sakura 🌸 themed greeting cards at a backstreet stationery shop. Unfortunately they didn’t stock any of those fancy 3D constructable ones where you get a whole tree, or the music light show ones. Still, the Japan levels are turned up to 11 on these 🎚️🇯🇵
People not looking up so much today ☔️
(See yesterday’s pic micro.chadkohalyk.com/2024/04/0…)
A little night walk down by the riverside in my neighbourhood which is called “Palace of Cherry Blossoms” 🌸🏯 Finally the blooming has started.
See all my sakura shots for the day here: www.flickr.com/photos/sa…
Day 2: Flowers 📷 (@davegullett)
A photographer enjoys the blooming cherry blossoms
📷 Day01 : toy (@pcora)
Cherry blossoms will be blooming over the next couple of weeks, so I am going to see if I can somehow maintain a parallel theme as this photo challenge progresses. Today I popped down to the Lego store to capture some toy cherry blossoms 🌸🧱
Gorgeous day at Osaka Station 🌞 😎 🧸⛲️
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