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#2 2009-04-19 10:16:10
- Tairaku 太楽
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Re: It's cherry blossom time in Japan
I'm in Baltimore right now and I practice on my sister in law's back porch overlooking a blossoming cherry tree. Makes me play "Sakura".
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#3 2009-04-19 10:23:18
- jaybeemusic
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Re: It's cherry blossom time in Japan
It sucks here in New Brunswick.... not a cherry tree to be seen. I was in Vancouver 2 years ago in the spring and it was marvelous (one of the only things i remember about the trip).
Maybe i should plant one and see what happens. Any idea of the species of cherry tree that's the most popular in japan?
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#4 2009-04-19 21:56:45
- Yungflutes
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Re: It's cherry blossom time in Japan
Believe it or not, there are a few Cherry Blossom trees here South of Harlem...and they are blossoming!
I was so taken by the beauty of Sakura during my residency in Japan that I created a character called Sakura Man for a couple of performances in Tokyo.
We spent a lot of time partaking in Hanami. Some avenues, and many neighborhoods, literally turned pink from the blossoms. It's one of my indelible images of Japan.
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#5 2009-04-21 08:33:33
- purehappiness
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Re: It's cherry blossom time in Japan
I have a prunus ume (flowering plum ) in my yard. It hasn't had any flowers yet but they are starting to open. Time to try and play sakura. Notice I said try. 
I was not conscious whether I was riding on the wind or the wind was riding on me.
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#6 2009-04-21 14:40:27
Re: It's cherry blossom time in Japan
I think trying is just fine, purehappiness. The tree won't mind. I played "Sakura" a while back when I was learning it, in a Japanese cemetery in Maui. The audience didn't complain!
The cherry trees in LA have been flowering, but it's not quite the same--they are scattered and some are actually that, hrm, whatever it is, oriental plum, or maybe some other type of cherry, with reddish leaves and flowers. Very nice, but not as dreamy as Japanese cherry trees.
...a Google Image search for 'oriental plum' led me to the dvojanka, a Serbian/Macedonian double flute. What comes around goes around, I suppose! 
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#7 2009-04-21 15:46:51
- purehappiness
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Re: It's cherry blossom time in Japan
I had a beautiful japanese flowering cherry where I used to live. I should plant another. What a way to celebrate spring. I don't remember the name of its species but you can find them all over in the nurseries around here(new england).It had beautiful pink blossoms.
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#8 2009-04-21 18:13:14
- Taldaran
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Re: It's cherry blossom time in Japan
Everything is in bloom in the pacific northwest!
Cherry and plum, azaleas are starting to come out. Rhodies won't be too far behind!
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#9 2009-04-21 19:46:01
- geminishadow79
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Re: It's cherry blossom time in Japan
Tairaku wrote:
I'm in Baltimore right now and I practice on my sister in law's back porch overlooking a blossoming cherry tree. Makes me play "Sakura".
I"ll be passing through baltimore next week, I never thought about the cherry trees being in bloom, I'll have to add "check out cherry blossoms" to my list of things to do!
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#10 2009-04-21 20:43:17
- Jeff Cairns
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Re: It's cherry blossom time in Japan
Here in south-west Japan, all of the fruit trees have finished blooming. Worth note is how the Sakura and Asian Pears bloomed at pretty much the same time (they're usually 2 to 3 weeks apart.) I haven't seen that happen in the 24 years that I've been here, though I anticipate more, sadly.
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#11 2009-04-22 06:00:31
- purehappiness
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Re: It's cherry blossom time in Japan
Unfortunately, global warming is changing things. Hopefully, we can get things under control.
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#12 2009-04-22 18:28:16
Re: It's cherry blossom time in Japan
purehappiness wrote:
Unfortunately, global warming is changing things. Hopefully, we can get things under control.
Amen to that, on this here Earth Day. It's good to have a President who sees this as a priority and an EPA that finally acknowledges CO2 as a pollutant.
The cherry blossoms have been off for a while now, as have the leaf-peeping times in the American Northeast. We probably can't reign them back in to where they used to be, season-wise, but we can take steps to stop further destruction.
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