Take me to the nature

I couldn’t be happier to bring you the official news: Spring has sprung in our little part of China.

A couple of weeks ago, there was one lone flowering tree on campus and every time I passed by, someone was standing in front of the tree surrounded by a wreath of pink and white flowers having his or her photo taken.

It didn’t take long for word to get around that a whole forest of such trees was hidden away in the Botanical Gardens. Before you could say “pink enchanted forest”, Josh and I were pedaling across the city.

As if we’d never seen real flowers before, we immediately dove into the tangle of pink and felt fresh offshoots swat our cheeks. Then we tucked our heads in between branches and sniffed the tiny pink petals up into our nostrils. I think the bees felt displaced by our up close and personal devotion to each tiny blossom.
After snapping some photos of the happy moments, we made space for another group of beguiled visitors to lose themselves in ‘the nature’.