January inward Okinawa agency the outset prefecture for the blooming of cherry blossoms. Recently, I’ve learned a phrase summing upward cherry blossom viewing—hana yori dango. Dango could endure used every bit rice cakes in addition to hana agency flowers. The facial expression literally translates to, flowers over rice cakes.
In other words, hana yori dango is genuinely saying, “we’re maxim we’re going to catch cherry blossoms, merely actually, we’re going to swallow in addition to drink.”
Fair enough.
Cherry blossom viewing inward Nago is prime number event. The buds, a nighttime pink, different mainland, sprinkle the trees. The OkiJETs took business office hiking a mount to catch the blossoms in addition to admiring the natural beauty of the metropolis coming together the sea.
Because cherry blossom viewing isn’t enough, (there’s in addition to thence much pretty inward Okinawa) this by weekend, I ventured to Nakagusuku to persuasion sunflower fields. Coming from the Midwest, the virtually yellowish I get, is corn during summertime in addition to fall.
Living inward a suburb roughly Chicago, in that location are woods preserves, merely I hardly ventured into those because mosquitoes swallow me endure in addition to I didn’t attention much. Nihon taught me appreciation for nature in addition to peculiarly for flowers.
Whenever negative emotions conduct maintain hold, I acquire catch pretties…and Okinawa is total of pretties.
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