Cherry blossoms are in full bloom all over northern Taiwan. No matter how depressing the economy is, nature beauty never fails us. Why not put all our worries behind and walk out to appreciate the delight nature brings us? It’s the prime season for Cherry Blossoms. Flowers take pride in blooming as pretentiously as possible. There are so many scenery sports just around Taipei area for people to explore.Purposely or unexpectedly I had seen Sakura in every my outing, still I would go for it again and again before the season is over if chances knock on my door. How lucky I was today that I could swap my morning class with my colleague to enjoy a different weekday morning at 淡水天元宮 (Tienyuan Temple).
The idea was brought up by Sherry, or I would never realize that I could make it happen by just seizing the chance. There were four of us including Sherry’s two friends Sophia and her husband. Not taking account of Sherry’s blur memory, it was practically the 1st time for all of us to visit the place. I thought the only route to 天元宮was going through DanSuei all the way to 三芝. How terribly wrong we were! It took us one hour from ShinLin to the destination 天元宮. Before arriving there, I finally realized from the road signs along the road that we made a long big circle and wasted a lot of time driving. .But it was worth. Or we wouldn’t have the chance to see the beautiful road led to 天元宮 which is paved with colorful flowers on the two sides. It looked so amazingly beautiful and tranquil that caressed us like a breeze stroking our face and ridded our anxiety.
Though it’s Thursday morning, the place was crowded with people. We drove up and down to look for a parking lot. Ha, we got a nice corner perfect for my car.
We took a lot of photos of course like we always did.
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Sherry's model fanaticism was triggered soon after we got off the car. Frontal, side pose, or body in motion. My dummy camera couldn't do the job to catch her well. Just when thinking we had no much time left and turned back to look for her, I saw her chatting with a big group of female visitors. No one is stranger to her. In no time, she blended in tracelessly. Of course they were invited to take some joined pictures. Just when we thought we had enough excitement, Sophia ran into her aunt and uncle. What a small world! Greetings and again more photo-taking. "Got to go," finally I said firmly. We took the opposite direction to drive into Taipei. As I figured, we took the wrong route indeed coming here as it took us around 10 min. only back to ShihLin!The weather is getting hoter and hoter at a fast pace, faster than we comprehend. I have a feeling that this might be the last venture I did for Sakura hunting. All the flowers will wither and fall before we know it. I am thrilled to say it will definitely be a blooming year, endorsed by all the blossomed Sakura, to me!
Trini
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Thank you, Trini, for such a lovely hanami Thursday morning! The beauty of Yoshinozakuka in full bloom was beyond description! Splendid and Magnificent, indeed!
回覆刪除I can't help thinking of the beautiful cherry blossom at Ten-yuan Temple the moment we got home. It started raining non stop from yeserday evening and today all day!