Hanami and Physics

So today I wanted to combine the love of the Japanese for flowers, which is apparent in every corner in the city! With my department: The Department of Physics at the Univeristy of Osaka. I am in the 7th floor, so the highest of the building.



From the main entrance facing the "chuugoku" highway till the center of the Campus could you see flowers embellishing the road.

From the main entrance...



Far into the campus...



Japanese have an obsession for "Hanami" literally meaning "seeing flowers" but which I would translate to "enjoying flowers"! They do not only do Hanami in the time of cherry blossoming, but starting from spring with plum blossoming then cherry, through summer with differnet kinds of floral plants, till automn where the leafs start to change to red!
Every flower is a possible target for Hanami! Reasoning about it's beauty, it's smell and it's relation with the current weather. So you could say Hanami is not only looking at flowers, but feeling the flower in relation with the current environment.
Relating ones own inner feelings to the nature surrounding one.
Very Japanese indeed..