Blue symphony

Where sky meets land, a photo by Ame 雨 on Flickr.

The day before yesterday I have been to Hitachi seaside park where Nemophilas are in full bloom now.
The park is really big and absolutely beautiful. It looked like there is no border between sky, land and sea! It was a complete blue world but that blue makes you happy :)

Cherry blossom (Sakura) in Japan this year

I had been thinking of writing about cherry blossom for long. But this year the cherry blossom stayed for the shortest time. It started twice earlier than expected, then the weather was really bad here in Tsukuba. It rained continually for days just when the sakura was in full bloom. I really wanted to go for hanami (see the flowers and eat, drink, have fun under sakura trees) this year but it seemed pretty impossible :-(

But I was desperate about taking some pictures of sakura this year since last year I couldn't do so. I went for a walk in a park nearby university and took some photos. But there were not a lot of sakura tress, so I wasn't fully satisfied.

Cherry blossom at Matsumi Park, Tsukuba University

Cherry blossom at Matsumi Park, Tsukuba University 

Finally I went to Tokyo on a good weather day to meet my friend and visited Inokashira park for the first time. And it was absolutely beautiful there!!! So I will be sharing some pictures from that place today! Hope you'll like them :)

Boats and cherry blossom at Inokashira park

Boat ride

Sakura in full bloom

Heavenly flower shower

This is all for this year's cherry blossom. Hope to take some better pictures next year!

Guests for a while

Guests for a while, a photo by Ame 雨 on Flickr.

Dandelions are so adorable! I'm absolutely in love with them! But they stay just for a while and then I have to wait again one more year for them...
Anyway, yesterday I discovered that a bunch of dandelions just appeared and suddenly the field in front of my dormitory has turned white! But there wasn't enough light yesterday..so some snaps today. Ain't they cute? :)

Spring harmony brought by Tulips!

Spring harmony, a photo by Ame 雨 on Flickr.

Tulips are in full bloom in Japan now! I'm dying to visit tulip garden but have to wait till coming Golden Week holidays and hope they wait for me too!
This one is my first tulips photo of this year. In front of Tsukuba Station few tulips have bloomed, so I couldn't resist taking some snaps!
I will upload more photos when I visit tulip garden :)

Plum festival at Mount Tsukuba (筑波山 梅祭り)

It's been a while since i wrote my blog since I had been really busy with my term final exam. So my exam just ended last friday and I was super exhausted..so I wanted to go out so much... >.<
It has become warmer now and spring flowers have started to bloom. At mount Tsukuba there is plum festival going on and I found that right now the flowers are in full bloom, so I decided to check out the place. I had been there in autumn and that was really really beautiful there! I will post the pictures later.
Since I love nature, flowers and photography, so this was a must visit place for me!
The weather was really nice today and after I reached there I found that the place is actually more beautiful than I imagined!!! It was just like a heaven, seriously! As far as you can see there are flowers and flowers...
So I'm gonna post some of my favorite photos here. Hope you will enjoy! ^^

Flower Festival at Ibaraki, Japan

いばらき 花フェスタに行って来ましたよ！(^.^)/
Today I have been to the yearly flower festival of Ibaraki with my friend which took place for this weekend. Actually we didn't know about that before. We went out to go to somewhere beautiful and a lady at information center of Tsukuba Station told us about this flower festival.
The exhibition was simply gorgeous and they had many events attached to it. They also held competition on flower art and the prize winners were absolutely awesome. The one I liked the most was like a canvas with real flower art, then the rainbow colored decoration and the third best to me was a blue rose bouquet. But it's really difficult to say which one was the best as all the designs were too beautiful and dreamy.
We attended an event where famous flower artists demonstrated how they make bridal flower bouquets and also stage decoration. And all of them were too good! So I'm gonna post the final photo of the event with three models holding designed bouquets and some of my favorite photos!

All about Jellyfish!

I love visiting aquariums. There are a number of nice aquariums in Japan, each with it's particular attractions. I have been to Shinagawa Aquarium, Sun shine city aquarium of Ikebukuro, Kasai Rinkai Aquarium in Tokyo. But recently I have been to Osaka's big aquarium and I absolutely loved it! The reason is, they had a lot of variety of jellyfishes which is my most favorite in aquariums ^.^
I took a number of photos there since it's my hobby, but I couldn't read all the descriptions for time limitation. So I have searched for their detailed description on web later and today I'm gonna share the pictures I took along with little description about them. Hope the jellyfish lovers will enjoy! ^o^

Let's start with Moon Jellyfish. This is one of the most commonly seen jellyfish in aquariums and is found in almost all oceans of the world. Scientific name of moon jelly or saucer jelly is Aurelia aurita.

Moon Jellyfish

Then let me introduce you to the cute and innocent Golden Jellyfish. They are totally harmless as they don't sting. There is Jellyfish Lake located in Eil Malk Island in Palau where there are plenty of them. Snorkeling in the lake along with the cute golden jellies is very famous.

Golden Jellyfish

Now it's turn of the gorgeous yellow jellyfish, named as Pacific Sea Nettle, scientific name Chrysaora fuscescens. Sea Nettles have 24 undulating maroon tentacles that may trail behind as far as 3.6 to 4.6m. They are pretty famous for displaying in aquariums for their vibrant colors and easy maintenance.

Pacific Sea Nettle

There was another special type of jellyfish, I haven't found much details about this type. Though it seems like white spotted jellyfish but I'm not quite sure about that. Anyways, I will put the picture.

And two more pictures of cute small jellies, I don't know their name, may be they are baby jellyfish.

So, that's all for today. If I find something interesting then I will post again :)