The earliest sakura.....

Posted by Japanalia (Yokohama, Japan) on 19 January 2009 in Plant & Nature and Portfolio.

....is blooming! The little pink buttons decorate the leafless trees like candied flowers! I've seen them a few days back, from a bus, and I thought I might have been dreaming......but...no, they are here! Amazing, isn't it?! I've never seen them bloom so early!!!!

Nikon D70s
1/320 second
F/9.0
ISO 400
97 mm (35mm equiv.)

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