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Sakura Matsuri 2004
at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
May 1
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This is the view as you first approach the Japanese section of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. |
A view of the stone bridge. |
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Look! There are turtles on the rock! |
The dark blurs are fishies in the water. |
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Crissy and Jenny! |
Crissy and Jenny again! |
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One dark blur is a fishie, the closer one is a turtle, I believe. |
The pond is a major part of the Japanese gardens. |
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As you can see, the trail winds around the pond. |
You can see the mass of people on the other side of the curved bridge. |
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I don't know what this flower is called, but it's lovely. |
The grassy island in the center of the pond. |
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Koi! |
Turtles sunning themselves on a log in front of the waterfall. |
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It's me. :) |
Face-In-Shadow Woman strikes again! |
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Admiring the shrine. |
This is a reconstruction of a small Shinto shrine. |
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Jenny in front of the shrine. |
She bought this yukata new for this year. |
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I'm smiling because Sailor Mars lives in a Shinto temple. |
Now I'm smiling like a dumbass. |
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An explanation of the Shinto shrine. |
The long line of people snakes away from the shrine. |
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A view of our backs! You can't really tell, but Jen's obi is hand-tied, while mine is pre-tied. |
The blossoms were extraordinary this year. |
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Everything looked as if it had been drawn by CLAMP. |
The cherry trees are actually not part of the Japanese exhibit. |
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They have their own pathway, around a large broad field. |
Jenny stops to smell the trees. |
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I lent her one of my fuzzy white hair thingies I bought from The Kimono House. |
Jenny was nice enough to lend me her other yukata. |
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She also picked that blossom I have tucked behind my ear. |
I'm wearing the other white fuzzy thing in my hair. |
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I'm pretty sure this is the same tree we posed by last year. |
A look up into the tree. |
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It's Lou! He took most of the photos on this page. |
He's not in costume. That's just his jacket. It rocks. |
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Jenny and Matty |
I really should've edited out that guy's hat... |
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Jenny and Crissy holding fans. |
A closeup of Jen and I. |
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Lou has Vash glasses! |
Serious Vash. |
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More people milling around. |
The path to the rose garden. |
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I took this photo by purple flowers for my stepfather. |
His favorite color is purple. |
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Jenny poses coyly. |
Look! Purple flowers above, purple flowers below! |
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You know, this is the *one* outfit where boobs are NOT appropriate. |
Aren't we cute? |
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Yes. Yes we are. |
There were quite a bit of people, even away from the cherry blossoms. |
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Walking along the path. |
Lou loves candid shots. |
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This was a group of Japanese tourists, who asked to take a picture with us. We were just as excited to meet them! |
More of the BBG's loveliness. |
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Random statuary. |
Someday, all tourists will be robots. |
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Lou took these for me because I love vibrant, fiery flowers. |
A random family enjoying the sunshine. |
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This is one of the greenhouses, where the exotic flowers are grown. |
This is the information center. |
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Goldfish! |
A lot of people had fun playing with the goldfish. |
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I made a friend. :) |
I hope her father didn't mind we were taking random pictures of his kid. |
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The wonderful splashes of color. |
Lou took this because of that flower's one mutant stripe of red. |
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Japanese dancers waiting to perform. |
We didn't get to watch them dance. |
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Linifolia tulips. |
That's a real live bird! |
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He stood so still people couldn't believe he wasn't a statue. |
It's hard to tell in this photo (and it was too high up for us to reach to provide a frame of reference), but these blossoms were at *least* as big as my hand. |
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