There are a few NY resolution. One of which I have shared is to bring my family to Japan. This time, my wife will be following me to help realise one of my dreams. I rem that I need to provide her a book of sakura next time we go Japan - the last trip was cherry blossom Tohoku and we wanted to ID the sakura trees.
There are many species of Sakura trees. As a beginner, I read that we could easily distinguish them by a few simple rules - no. of petals, colour of flowers and the shape of the trees. For petals, there are common 5-petal flower, 20-petal ones and even 100-petal ones. Each type of petal has its own Jap name which I have yet to comprehend and rem. For colours, we saw white, pink and yellow ones before and this also helps differentiate the species.
There are also shapes of the trees that ID one from another. The weeping ones are quite different from the V-shaped ones. By "weeping", you can image how the shape of the tree look like, tears dripping down in divergence. There are much more to learn and I will try to "teach" my wife and even my family for the coming trip if the sakura season is still on. This time, maybe not the sakura "cake", but more of the "sakura mood".
~Sakura Sakura~
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