Do you love flowers? I am sure most of us do and I am not the exception.
The flowers I like best are cherry blossoms, peach blossoms, wisterias, azaleas and cosmoses and I began to fancy orchids and morning glories after I came to Okinawa.
I used to think morning glories were very feeble and artificial because they couldn't grow without riders to support them, but I learned after I came to Okinawa that they grew wild in the bush and I knew for the first time what their vines were for. They wind themselves around not only tree trunks but almost everything they can and grow high in the bush, delighting our eyes with the reddish blue flowers.There are many other kinds of flowers I had thought were supposed to grow in a flower pot until I found them growing wild in Okinawa.
Because the seasons are not so distinct in Okinawa as on the mainland, the period of time you can observe a particular type of flower is rather long.
For instance when I lived in the mainland, cosmos was a flower you could enjoy seeing only in the autumn, but here in Okinawa, you can find them from November to May, and I am really happy about that because they are so admirable when their slender bodies sway in the breeze. In Okinawa the most famous place for cosmos viewing is a flower field called
Kaguyahime, where you can see a carpet of cosmos flowers on the hill overlooking the ocean.
The following is the
Haiku I made
as slender as a girl
cosmos sways easily, pink red and white
in the breeze as playful as a child SESON WORD: cosmos
SEASON: from late autumn to early summer
Now mountains and hills in Okinawa are freshly green with new leaves. I was going to take a lot of pictures and then after taking only one picture the battery went dead.
