Week 15: The Sakura Fall

The Beauty of Impermanence

The second week of April on the BC west coast manifests in the abundance and beauty of blossoming cherry trees.

Their exquisite and heart softening delicacy is only matched by the ephemerality of this phenomenon.

Only gracing the trees for a few short weeks’ the most prominent metaphor learned from this flowering sentinel is the fleeting beauty of life.

With the coastal breezes inviting the petals to dance, they loose themselves from their arbour home into a windswept choreography ending with a carpet petal denouement.