May flowers: Clematis

Posted by Japanalia (Yokohama, Japan) on 9 May 2008 in Plant & Nature and Portfolio.

"The years have touches me.
I worry that I grow frail with age.
But I only need to see
Your flower like beauty
For all anxiety and heaviness
To leave me."
(poem by Fujiwara no Yoshifusa, 804-872)

Nikon E5700
1/101 second
F/3.7
ISO 100
70 mm (35mm equiv.)

clematis
may-flowers