EARLY SPRING IN HOKKAIDO.

Spring has come. We wanted to see scenery in Hokkaido.  So we started to go to Hokkaido.

We got on a plane at Tokyo International Air port(Haneda).

 

 

Arrivng Hokkaido, we went to a field in a surburbs of Sapporo.

We could see that Ezo-Engosaku flowers grew in colonies.

 

 

 

Ezo-Engosaku,growing in colonies.

 

エゾエンゴサクの群生です。

 

 

Ezo-Engosaku.

 

エゾエンゴサクです。

 

 

By macro lens.

 

 

Then.On the way to Lake Toyako,we went to a entrance to Hyakunen-no-Mori.

 

 

 

Ezono-Ryukinka started to bloom along a small stream.

 

エゾノリュウキンカが小川に沿って咲き始めました。

 

 

Ezono-Ryukinka.

 

エゾノリュウキンカです。

 

 

By macro lens.

 

 

 

Mizu-Basyo flowers grow in colonies.

 

ミズバショウです。

 

Mizu-Basyo

 

ミズバショウです。

 

 

By macro lens.

 

 

 

 

We stayed a hotel beside Lake Toyako.

 

泊まったホテルです。

 

 

Next  day,we could see Lake Toyako from the hotel site.

 

洞爺湖です。

 

 

And, Mt.Yoteizan.

 

羊蹄山です。

 

Zooming up.

 

アップです。

 

 

We could see Lake Toyako from the room where we stayed.

 

部屋から洞爺湖が見えました。

 

We went to Hoppo wild flower garden at Asahikawa.

 

 

 

A white birch forest.

 

白樺の林です。

 

Zazen-Soh.

Zazen means that sitting in Zen meditation.

 

ザゼンソウです。

 

Zazen-Soh.

Does this flower look like a priest sitting in Zen meditation?

 

 

 

Hukuju-Soh.

 

福寿草です。

 

Then we went to Yosyou garden at Takinoue.

 

 

 

Erica flowers grow in colonies.

 

エリカです。

 

White Erica flowers by macro lens.

 

 

Tamazoki-Sakurasoh.

 

玉咲き桜草です。

 

Chiyonodokusa.

 

チヨノドクサです。

 

 

White Chiyonodokusa.

 

It was very cold in Hokkaido. Temparature was about 6~8°C.

It snowed in Sapporo,the capital of Hokkaido,in May after an interval of 21 years.

 

 

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