First of the Sakura in Matsuda

Hello and hisashiburi! It’s around that time of year where work is suuuuper busy with lots of stuff coming to an end, and lots of other stuff getting ready to begin. It’s a hard time of year because the end of the winter where it’s hard to get out of a dark cold slump (every year, it happens), and then everything is getting ready to happen all at once, but you know when it all ends, it’ll be spring and warm and flowers and new beginnings! I liiiive for the sun and hot weather, and I’ve finally finished the last big work event of the (school) year. Now there’s just a few more things to tie up, and it’ll be the the transition into the new year, and then a little break for golden week! Actually, I got covid right between 2 of the biggest events of the year and my timing was so lucky (?) I guess? 😆 So I didn’t have to miss anything extremely important, and kind of got a chance to recharge between them. I was totally sick and fevered for about 4/5 day, but then I recovered. 

Anyway, enough about all that stuff, and onto why I started this post! Well, I did wanna give a little life update, but more importantly, flowers!!! Early blooming Kawazuzakura to be exact. I decided suddenly on Monday to head to Matsuda in Kanagawa and catch some of there’s sakura in bloom up on a mountain along with the yellow nanohana. 

And shockingly, I ran into some people I knew! Sundai and her man were out and about taking photos for her clothing line and I joined in a bit along with stealing a few quick snaps of the gorgeous Sundai (thank you both for brightening up my day a bit 💕🌸) 

Soooo yeah, a lonely adventure ended up being a lot more fun than I’d thought! 😊🌸

Vlog will be here after 3/21/22

Shibuya Miyashita Park Photo Adventure with Mo

Mo and I had made plans to do something together on this day (not expensive because I have been seriously low on money since Izu) so we decided photo shooting each other and the new Miyashita Park in Shibuya was the way to go! 

Vlog: https://youtu.be/lZc-HnLppyg

(Taken by Mo)

We wandered around some of the old side streets and alleys of Shibuya

(Taken by Mo) some are film and some are digital

And even found some new ones! This reminds me a lot of Koenji’s outdoor izakaya seating vibe

Then we ended the Shibuya part of our adventure near a nice bridge

(Taken by Mo)

It was perfect timing that we decided to head to Mo’s place to drink wine and chat about life, because a sudden windy downpour began as we walked to the station! There were on and off downpours the past few days because of a typhoon. 

We drank and caught up and talked about any and everything <3

Early Blooming Kawakuzakura Photo Shoot in Yoyogi Park

February 2020

I went with my lovely photographer friend Lisa (instagram: @hanamiphotography) to photo shoot and frolic with the early-blooming kawazuzakura! 

Here's my YouTube video from this day:

We met up at Harajuku station and walked to Yoyogi Park from there. 

We planned to shoot me, but then we both got distracted by the beauty and started shooting the flowers instead XD 

 Then we saw some mejiro! They're little green birds, and I'm always surprised to see green birds in the wild, because they aren't in WV as far as I know. When I see a green bird, I think of a parrot or something tropical that I'd only seen before in captivity. We had to try for a while to capture these little guys, as they were hopping and flitting all about!

 Then we talked a lot, about life, Japan, flowers, photography. She was so sweet and easy to talk to right after meeting! We clicked right away, and she even let me try out her camera!

After shooting, we decided to grab a quick bite at a healthy cafe like an oasis in Omotesando. We managed to leave with cameras full of beauty, bellies full of good healthy food, and hearts full of friendship. <3 

Here are the photos she took of me, and here is her instagram where you can find all her beautiful photography! Contact her if you want to have beautiful flower photos while you're in Tokyo! 

https://www.instagram.com/hanamiphotography/

It was great meeting someone as obsessed with flowers as I am! I didn't even know about there being kawazuzakura in Yoyogi, so I'm really glad I got the chance to see them. I have already seen plum blossoms, and kawazuzakura this year. I am so excited for the full-force cherry blossom bloom and then next adventure with Lisa! <3

Blog: First Snow Pictures!

Hello! :)
 Here are some pictures I took from a random, mini snowstorm last week. The snow was gone within 2 days.  I think there's a possibility of  a really big snowstorm at the end of this week according to the weather though!

First of all, here's a close up picture of just the snow, because the morning sun made it sparkle! In the first picture, I brought up the saturation to make it have a bit of a pastel rainbow, and the second, I did the opposite so it would be pure white.

And here's some frosty grass I saw before the sun hit that side of the hill in the morning!

...aaaand that's all for now! Just a snowy teaser! It's currently snowing now, A LOT, so maybe the predicted super snowstorm is here earlier than expected...so be ready for some more snow pictures coming up.