{"id":184,"date":"2006-04-23T23:19:51","date_gmt":"2006-04-23T14:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2006-04-23\/184"},"modified":"2007-04-10T00:25:04","modified_gmt":"2007-04-09T15:25:04","slug":"life-stages-of-the-cherry-blosssom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2006-04-23\/184","title":{"rendered":"Life Stages of the Cherry Blosssom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nToday we went up to the <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;q=35.058031,135.789843&amp;ll=35.058031,135.789843&amp;spn=0.004488,0.010772&amp;om=1\">Takaragaike\nChildren's Park<\/a>, <span class='nobr'>a wonderful<\/span> playground with lots of fun things for\nyoung kids (those older than elementary-school age are not allowed in\nunless accompanied by someone in elementary school or younger).\n\n<\/p><p>\n\nIt's in a cooler area of Kyoto than we are (they get <span class='nobr'>a fair<\/span> amount more\nsnow during the winter, for example; as the blog of <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.planetkyoto.com\/nils\/\">Nils<\/a>, who lives up there, will\nattest). Being cooler, some of their cherry blossoms are peaking and fading\n<span class='nobr'>a bit<\/span> later than <a href=\"\/blog\/2006-04-20\/182\">ours<\/a>.\n\n<\/p><p>\n\nHere's a tree right between the &#8220;petals fallen&#8221; and &#8220;leaves grown&#8221; state:\n\n<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"img_center\"><a href=\"\/i\/_JEF014365.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/_JEF014365_sm.jpg\" width=\"675\" height=\"463\"\nalt=\"An almost blossomless\/leafless cherry tree at the Takaragaike Children's Park, Kyoto Japan\"\nborder=\"0\"\nid=\"iJEF014365\"\nphotostream=\"spring\"\ntitle=\"An almost blossomless\/leafless cherry tree at the Takaragaike Children's Park, Kyoto Japan\"\/><\/a><br\/><font color=\"#C0C0C0\" size=\"-1\">(click to expand)<\/font><\/div>\n\n   \n<p>\n\nAll the red stems will eventually fall off.\n\n<\/p><p>\n\nThe next image has three cherry trees in the foreground (although it may be\nhard to see on the small pic; click for <span class='nobr'>a larger<\/span> version):\n\n<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n\n<li>The tree on the left looks much like that in the picture above (mostly\nthe red stems, but the occasional white petal and occasional green\nleaf).<\/li>\n\n<li>The tree on the right is in absolute full bloom.<\/li>\n\n<li>The smaller tree just to the right of center, which at first glance\njust looks like part of the big fluffy tree on the right, has <span class='nobr'>a mix<\/span> of half\nblossoms and half leaves.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>\n\nThese trees are right smack in the middle of the play area; the trees in\nthe background are on the side of <span class='nobr'>a mountain<\/span> that the park is next to.\n\n<\/p>\n<br clear=\"all\"\/>\n\n<div class=\"img_center\"><a href=\"\/i\/_JEF014381.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/_JEF014381_sm.jpg\" width=\"675\" height=\"452\"\nalt=\"Three cherry trees in different stages of bloom, at the Takaragaike Children's Park, Kyoto Japan\"\nborder=\"0\"\nid=\"iJEF014381\"\nphotostream=\"spring\"\ntitle=\"Three cherry trees in different stages of bloom, at the Takaragaike Children's Park, Kyoto Japan\"\/><\/a><br\/><font color=\"#C0C0C0\" size=\"-1\">(click to expand)<\/font><\/div>\n\n<p>\n\nI guess the way things progress really depends on the variety. <span class='nobr'>The middle<\/span> tree has no red stems -- the leaves are pushing out the petals directly.\n(Heck, for all <span class='nobr'>I know,<\/span> maybe one or all of these aren't even <b>cherry<\/b>\ntrees!)\n\n<\/p><p>\n\nHere's a close-up from the big fluffy tree on the right:\n\n<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"img_center\"><a href=\"\/i\/_JEF014246.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/_JEF014246_sm.jpg\" width=\"675\" height=\"455\"\nalt=\"Just-blooming cherry tree, at the Takaragaike Children's Park, Kyoto Japan\"\nborder=\"0\"\nid=\"iJEF014246\"\nphotostream=\"spring\"\ntitle=\"Just-blooming cherry tree, at the Takaragaike Children's Park, Kyoto Japan\"\/><\/a><br\/><font color=\"#C0C0C0\" size=\"-1\">(click to expand)<\/font><\/div>\n\n<p>\n\nThere are plenty of buds which haven't even bloomed yet!\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Today we went up to the Takaragaike Children's Park, a wonderful playground with lots of fun things for young kids (those older than elementary-school age are not allowed in unless accompanied by someone in elementary school or younger). <\/p><p> It's in a cooler area of Kyoto than we are (they get a fair amount more snow during the winter, for example; as the blog of Nils, who lives up there, will attest). Being cooler, some of their cherry blossoms are peaking and fading a bit later than ours. <\/p><p> Here's a tree right between the \"petals fallen\" and \"leaves [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}