A Tribute To and a Celebration of...

Tribute to what, you may ask?  Actually, a tribute, to the many beautiful flowers I've encountered on my walks this summer.  And the celebration?  It's for the END of this way too hot, too humid summer!!!  Although the heat and humidity have yet to totally disappear, we are getting close to the glorious - or so I'm told - month of October.  So I want to say goodbye to Mother Nature's stifling summer with the sole positive memory I may have of her participation in that season:  the abundance and variety of the many beautiful flowers which persisted in blooming in and throughout this concrete jungle of Tokyo.

Other than the few common flowers I am able to recognize - cherry blossom, azalea, hydrangeas, camellia, impatiens - the rest are all unknown to me, the perennial Black Thumb of the West!  Sit back, click on the first picture, and then continue clicking at all the photos along the bottom of your screen.  They will appear Full Screen.  Travel through a "silent" journey of the amazingly beautiful flowers that I have encountered on my daily walks throughout this amazing country!

Hooray!  It's officially fall!!!