{"id":4511,"date":"2018-04-17T17:55:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T08:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/?p=4511"},"modified":"2018-04-17T18:27:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T09:27:24","slug":"lavender-ryuso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/17\/lavender-ryuso\/","title":{"rendered":"Lavender Ryuso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4516 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180417_tea_fields_600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180417_tea_fields_600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180417_tea_fields_600-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/> Every day on Ryuso beautiful. Every day the beauty&#8217;s different.<\/p>\n<p>Above, tea fields along the road up to the trailhead.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4519 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180417_yamabuki_450-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180417_yamabuki_450-1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180417_yamabuki_450-1-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Yamabuki<\/em>, near the trailhead.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4514 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180417_lavender_azaleas_600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180417_lavender_azaleas_600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180417_lavender_azaleas_600-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The accent on the mountain this mid-April day\u00a0 was the lavender azaleas. It&#8217;s a beauty that a camera has difficulty capturing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4512 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180417_lavender_azaleas_2_600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180417_lavender_azaleas_2_600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180417_lavender_azaleas_2_600-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Most of the time, you gaze upon the blossoms\u00a0<em>through\u00a0<\/em>the leaves of other trees, which is stunningly beautiful to the human eye&#8212;but gives an ordinary camera fits. It never knows what to focus on.<\/p>\n<p>Some may prefer the azaleas on a blue-sky day, but I think they look rather elegant in the grey.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4515 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180417_misty_woods_tk_600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180417_misty_woods_tk_600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180417_misty_woods_tk_600-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>And the grey.<\/p>\n<p>The grey, misty woods are a perfect place for solitude. Ask a Hearty Hiker. . . . If you can catch up with her!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4520\" src=\"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180417_cherry_blossoms_and_grey_600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180417_cherry_blossoms_and_grey_600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180417_cherry_blossoms_and_grey_600-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cherry blossoms and grey skies block our usual view of Mt. Fuji.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4523 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180416_onions_ryuso_450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180416_onions_ryuso_450.jpg 450w, https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180416_onions_ryuso_450-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A few days earlier. In my neighborhood.\u00a0<em>Negibozu\u00a0<\/em>(&#8220;Buzz-cut onion heads&#8221;), with Ryuso in the background.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4513\" src=\"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180417_lavender_azaleas_4_600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180417_lavender_azaleas_4_600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180417_lavender_azaleas_4_600-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day on Ryuso beautiful. Every day the beauty&#8217;s different. Above, tea fields along the road up to the trailhead. Yamabuki, near the trailhead. The accent on the mountain this mid-April day\u00a0 was the lavender azaleas. It&#8217;s a beauty that a camera has difficulty capturing. Most of the time, you gaze upon the blossoms\u00a0through\u00a0the leaves &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/17\/lavender-ryuso\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lavender Ryuso<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4511"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4526,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4511\/revisions\/4526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}