Neighbourhood spring colours
Took a 30 minute stroll around the neighbourhood with my daughter and snapped a selection of the spring flowers. It really is a fantastic time of year for walking and being in the countryside. Hope that spring doesn't disappear on us too quickly this year. Summer seems to arrive earlier every year. Click this link for a set of photos on flickr.
posted by jh at 17.4.06
3 Comments:
Enjoyed the pics. I particularly enjoyed the "classic" cherry blossom one - natsukashii! We went to the New Forest today and did the same: wandered around, took some pics.
Perhaps focussing on small but beautiful things helps you momentarily ignore the kind of Japan described in the book by Kerr. My memory's vague on this, but I read somewhere once about the Japanese aesthetic something along these lines:
One of the tendencies of the Japanese aesthetic was to focus on the small at the expense of the big. As a result, you could end up creating a haiku or sumie about a particular flower or a bird sitting on a tree, but concrete slabs nearby would be completely disregarded as if they didn't exist. Perhaps these photos reveal such a "selective aesthetic"? You're becoming more Japanese than you realise!
Definitely a lot of the "selective aesthetic" in these photos. There is plenty of ugliness around here, too, as you well know.
But, when the spring sun is warming your back, you're out for a stroll, and you have a warm-handed 5-year-old for company (singing songs all the while), then the world seems a pretty fine place.
I could't agree more!
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