Here are some shots from the plum festival from last weekend. The trees have just started to bloom. I bet it's going to be really gorgeous in a few weeks. This is one of my favorite pictures.
They performed tea ceremonies at a little stage. Unfortunately I couldn't get very close.
These are miniature plum trees that were for sale. All of the booth proceeds went to charity. We didn't get a tree (customs may have a problem with that) but we got some wooden kitchen utensils and olive oil cooking spray from Spain.
Another shot of the temple. The wooden plaques are prayers. You can buy the prayers at the temple store and then write on them, then you hang them on the wall. At this particular temple the prayer cards had the signs of the Chinese zodiac on them. If you look closely you can kind of see. This year is the year of the bull. Most places don't have the wooden plaques; they normally use slips of paper and then they're tied onto some string or wire.
A close-up of some of the temple detail.
Here are some shots from the plum festival from last weekend. The trees have just started to bloom. I bet it's going to be really gorgeous in a few weeks. This is one of my favorite pictures.
They performed tea ceremonies at a little stage. Unfortunately I couldn't get very close.
These are miniature plum trees that were for sale. All of the booth proceeds went to charity. We didn't get a tree (customs may have a problem with that) but we got some wooden kitchen utensils and olive oil cooking spray from Spain.
Another shot of the temple. The wooden plaques are prayers. You can buy the prayers at the temple store and then write on them, then you hang them on the wall. At this particular temple the prayer cards had the signs of the Chinese zodiac on them. If you look closely you can kind of see. This year is the year of the bull. Most places don't have the wooden plaques; they normally use slips of paper and then they're tied onto some string or wire.
A close-up of some of the temple detail.
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