Mar 7, 2015 - 1 min read

Glorious Plum Blossoms at Expo Park

Plum Blossoms 40% in bloom at the Plum Festival

By Masayoshi Hirose

Community writer

Translated by Takako Sakamoto

Community writer

Cascading plum trees still young with a tinge of green!

Brilliant plum blossoms with young bamboo trees in the background

A bud pops open and brilliant color bursts out!

Adorned with red costume of eight layers of petals

Bowing plum blossom worrying about something

On February 2012, I visited the annual Plum Blossom Festival held at the Natural and Cultural Gardens inside Expo Commemoration Park.

At this time of year, photographers can't wait for spring any longer. They feel the urge to get out their cameras and take photos, only to be disappointed that it is still winter. It always happens when the desolate, colorless winter is almost over. Then spring arrives and plum blossoms bloom in unison.The warm spring breeze carries sweet scent of plum blossoms. Photographers enjoy photographing them with blurry backgrounds created by the hazy spring air. Expo Park is only 10 minutes drive from my home. Taking photos of plum blossoms there is one of my spring pleasures!

Plum Blossom Festival at Expo Commemoration Park 1. Tower of the Sun and Plum Blossoms 2. Glorious Plum Blossoms at Expo Park 3. Lost Property on a Plum Tree Branch