I took this photo in a residential area in Meguro area in Tokyo to show you how the pavement is covered by sakura flowers. The city garbage trucks need to clean up all the scattered flowers. The flowers' weight collected from all over Tokyo should sum up to some tons, because there are thousands of sakura trees there.
I took another photo to show you the beauty of sakura flowers falling from trees and dancing in air. I hope you can see the flowers are falling like snow in the photo. (I waited for some time to shoot this moment.)
Actually when the wind is strong, the flowers are falling like heavy snow. We call this phenomena sakura snowstorm.
The duration of sakura flowers blooming is something like one week to ten days. They bloom very rapidly and simultaneously. And then they fall down very quickly as winds blow. This nature's phenomena affects the thinking of Japanese people. Japanese people sometimes love the way of life like sakura - bloom very beautiful for a short time and fade away very quickly.
- Ken, President
