Hanami at Queen E

its blossom heaven here in Vancouver. A few days ago I spent 10 minutes just leaning out my window and watching some kind of bulldog, obviously crazed with spring fever, leaping straight up into the air towards a stick which was hanging down from a cherry tree loaded with flowers in the park across the street. It was just out of his reach, but that did not deter him from repeated acrobatic leaps straight upwards, trying over and over again to catch it. He did manage to snatch it in his jaws twice , for a split second before gravity proved much stronger than his teeth. In the second he caught it though, a glorious shower of blossoms shook all over everything.