Spring in Tokyo

Is actually quite wet. It's become variable, with each week encompassing both gray and sunny days, wet and dry, and warm and cold. For example, this past week started dry but gray, changed to dark and wet on Wednesday and Thursday, and ended on Friday with a sunny and warm afternoon. Saturday started looking like continuing the climb back to warmth, but ended gray again. Raining overnight, then a gray and "spitty" Sunday. Apparently it's going to continue this way for the next couple of months.

Sakura (cherry blossom time) is now finished. I managed to get a few photos that begin to showcase the trees, but it is so much better in person. I've included some photos below. In the end, there is about one week where the blossoms are at their best. By the time Sonia was here for the weekend she had missed the best - the blossoms were thin and most of the petals were already on the ground. Just not the same.

Looking up one of the streets close to the apartment, where cherry blossom trees line both sides of the road, meeting over the top:
At times you can look out/up and not be able to see the sky because the flowers are so dense:
A close-up on the cherry blossom flower:
And an attempt at an artistic shot: