Spring: my favorite time of year, where I get to watch the natural world come
alive in a myriad of spectacular steps.
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Image 1: Lush Pink Cherry Blossoms in Japan |
While I try to see, experience, and contemplate spring's miracles, I find myself wanting to encourage others to do the same.
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Image 2: White Cherry Blossoms in Japan |
I think a synonym for spring could be "transform".
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Image 3: Pink Cherry Blossoms past peak in Japan |
Spring is a season of miraculous transformations.
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Image 4: Cherry Blossoms like Pink Lace against the Sky |
Spring's transformations are so ubiquitous that many forget to realize the miracles happening before their eyes.
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Image 5: Cherry Blossoms like lace backed by sky |
I find it hard not to be awed by the complete change in the landscape from winter to summer.
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Image 6: Cherry Tree in bloom, Kyoto |
I
love the mad rush of blossoms that transform some trees into an exuberant
floral fantasy for a couple of days, changing the tree from months
of bare branches to months of green leaves.
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Image 7: A Floral Fantasy: Cherry Tree in Bloom, Kyoto Japan |
Emerging spectacles link together to
form the season of "spring", yet the individual scenes of
spring, the blooming cycles of individual plants, are sometimes only 2-5
days long for a specific plant type, and the weather can interfere with
those periods.
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Image 8: Pink Cherry Blossoms |
Spring's joyous surprises are fast and fleeting.
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Image 9: Cherry blossoms in Japan |
If a modern person found a watch on the surface of the moon, they could recognize the watch as evidence that a watchmaker existed, because the watch could not "naturally" occur. I see spring's, and life's transformations and I recognize spring as evidence of a Creator.
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Image 10: Cherry trees with Tulips, Kyoto Botanic Garden |
Spring, and all of nature's miracles, convince me that a Creator existed, a designer of our planet's miracles, a watchmaker of life.
(Some
people say - "Who made the Creator?" which sidetracks the point that a Creator existed. One shouldn't ignore the evidence a watchmaker existed just because we don't know where the watchmaker came from.)
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Image 11: Fun Shaped White Cherry blossoms |
All of these photos where taken on my trip to Japan in 2025. I hope to someday document parks and gardens I visited, but I wanted to share some of the cherry blossoms I saw while it was still spring 2025. (In Wisconsin USA the redbuds are still blooming, and the Lilies of the Valley are in full bloom - it's still spring here!)
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Image 12: Japan's Ueno Park in Tokyo with Cherry Blossoms |
Here are two photos from Tokyo's Ueno Park, to show that I also tried to take lovely landscape views...
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Image 13: Ueno Park with Cherry Blossoms reflected in water |
But today's post consisted mostly of cherry blossom portraits - trying to capture close-ups of a fraction of the millions of blossoms I saw.
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Image 14: Bird in Cherry Blossoms |
I know further South it's summer (and in the Southern Hemisphere fall
will be starting soon) - I find the seasons and timing of spring fascinating. Spring photos can be enjoyed any time of year.
I hope you had a great spring with some beautiful memories, and I hope you enjoyed my photos
while reflecting on spring... If you read to here, I would love to hear your thoughts!
"The Earth laughs in flowers"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Note: This garden sign from Shinjuku Gyoen garden in Tokyo Japan is packed with information on cherry blossoms. Sorry about the quality, the photo was taken in pouring rain. Sigh...)
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Image 15: Garden Sign in Tokyo about Cherry Blossoms |
Click on the images to see them enlarged.
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33 comments:
These are so beautiful.
Your reflections on spring are deeply moving—a reminder that beauty, fleeting as it may be, points beyond itself to something intentional, something wondrously designed.
Beautiful words and beautiful blossoms! It sounds like you had a fabulous trip.
I do love spring, seeing everything come alive again. Beautiful photos! The blossom is always so pretty.
OMG, so beautiful! Visiting from #MMBC Melynda @scratchmadefood!
Stunning photos! Thanks for joining us this week so we could see your lovely spring!
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Beautiful, God's creation is indeed amazing as is He Jeanne.
Blessings, Jennifer
You have depicted the beauty of spring so well!
These are all so beautiful! You are inspiring me to break out my "real" camera and get some more artistic shots of nature.
Spring is my favorite time of year - all the flowers pushing through the soil and trees covered in flowers. Your photos are like a real fairy tale.
Beautiful photos! And yes, I feel like Spring points to our creator too. What a wonderful reminder you've gifted us!
Fantastic.
How gorgeous! We were there in Feb one year so just saw the start of the blossom. Your pics are lovely!
These are gorgeous! New beginnings!
You captured so much beauty on your trip to Japan, Jeanne! I love the anaolgy of "transformations" and how the season of spring is filled with them! Thank you for visiting our blog (Our Grand Lives) and for taking the time to read my story and comment. I am so happy to make the connect - we are neighbors of sorts as my blogging partner and I live in Minnesota and I visit Wisconsin regularly - our oldest and her family live near Madison! Have a wonderful week! I look forward to reading future posts!
So many amazing flowers!
WOW, just wow, absolutely incredible.
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Gorgeous photos! The blossoms are beautiful, and I really like those that have the blue sky as background. Lovely!
Spring seems to take forever to come where I live, and then it's gone in a flash. Your images are so beautiful - thank you for helping me relive spring.
Spring and spring blooms are just so joyful and uplifting.
Worth a Thousand Words
Oh I adore cherry blossom! Thanks for sharing and for taking part in #MySundaySnapshot.
Delightful photos! Thanks for taking part in the "Travel Tuesday" meme.
I love spring! It is such a pretty season. Those blossom captures are beautiful. Thanks so much for joining in with #MMBC. :)
Spring is indeed a magical and beautiful time.
Beautiful pictures!
My favorite spring tree is the Crabapple, I didn't realize they were so similar looking to the cherry blossoms! Featuring you at Wednesdays in the Studio!
Very enjoyable. Yes! Well shown and well written
What a beautiful celebration of spring, Jeanne!
Your photos perfectly capture the joy and freshness of the season.
I especially loved the close-ups.
Thank you for sharing your reflections.
It sounds like you had a beautiful trip, and I'm in love with all the photos. So beautiful! Featuring your post tomorrow at the Crazy Little Lovebirds link party.
What a color sensation! A riot of pastels.
Beautiful photos and gorgeous reflections!
Your images are fantastic. I think this trip was amazing. Thank you so much for sharing these beauties. When I see the perfection around me, at such a scale, I definetely believe that there is a cosmic creator designer, that we can call as we want. Would be a miraculous finding, this Source of everything. Maybe a lifetime target?
Thank you for the visit on my blog. Have a beautiful Summer, Jeanne!❤️😘
Thank you for linking up to Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot! I highlighted your post on my blog this week.
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