Today truly felt like a nice spring day. We were pleased to welcome as many as thirty-four guests on our walks. Our sakura blooming gauge tells the flowers are still in the kaika, opening stage, which, towards the weekend, is followed by sanbu, 30 percent, gobu, 50 percent, and hachibu, 80 percent, eventually reaching the mankai stage, the 100 percent full bloom. A week after mankai, all the petals will fall on the pedestrian path creating pink carpets, or drift away as pale wavy veils. This eph...