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Sunday, November 20, 2011

When The Sky Goes Down To The Earth



Hitachi Keihin park is a wonderful place indeed even if you are indiferrent about flowers. It's open through the whole year and occupies a huge territory of some sq. km.
Each spring, in April-May, millions of little white-blue nemophila flowers bloom on the small hills turning the ground into something like the sky or a sea surface. The picture of blue valleys going afar is so beautiful that one may admire it forever.









Nemophila or American forget-me-not - cold-hardened annual 25 cm high. It forms a brightly blooming wide carpet. Maybe of various sorts different in colors - from blue to violet.













Besides nemophila, depending on a season a lot of other flowers grow in the park. Such poppies, for example. Poppy straw is gathered by the employees of the park and widely used on its purpose.



Orange poppies



Roses have awesome aroma!







The park may offer many amusements for kids and adults.

Now some sad thing. During the events in Fukishima the vegetation of the park absorbed radiation emissions and the background gamma radiation there is 5 times higher than normal. On the hills it's OK, but once you step lower devices show 0.45 microsieverts/h while the normal urban values should be 0.09 microsieverts/h. So three hours spent in the park is equal to only one hour of flying by plane. 
via ralphmirebs

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