Plum buds and Snow

It is snowing in Tokyo area. I went to 航空公園(Koukuukouen-Park) in my city to enjoy snow scape and see plum(梅) trees. Very few plums bloomed. Feel of snow when I foot it was so nice. The photo is plum's buds I took. I want a single-lens reflex camera.....



At the park, after I put 1,000 yen into a vending machine, the machine packed up. I called to vending-machine-control-center of Japan-CocaCola about it. A complaint handler, a person of good address, said they will mail 1,000yen to my house. I guess they will mail me a complimentary ticket with 1,000 yen. I will benefit from the accident. Yay! :-D



If many plum blossoms bloomed, I could take a photo as if Dogen's haiku. I could put a blossom on white snow and took the photo. I want to do it once. A plum on the snow means 有(U)（existence)'s start from 無(Mu) in Dogen's haiku. Dogen is the founder of Soto-Zen of Japan.



Buds of plum makes me to feel beginning of something. This modest feeling of plum blossom is so nice. As I said, although Cherry is the representative blossom of Japan, I prefer Plum to Cherry. Plum blossoms and their flavor in snow scape is wonderful. White snow and Plum's contrast is so wonderful. It is sad that global warming may rob this happiness from us.



Have a nice week.