First Spring Morning at the Japanese Gardens

In early April, Matt and I invited a friend from work to the Gardens on a Sunday morning. Because we are "members" we can enter at 8am, whereas the general public has to wait until 10am. We find that when we visit early, we are often we the only ones in the gardenm and it is very beautiful and relaxing. We were hoping to see the cherry trees and azaleas in bloom, as they have almost bloomed out all over town. Apparently, the slightly higher altitude has a relatively significant effect on bloom times, because the cherry was still in bloom, and most of the azaleas had not "popped" yet. There were, however, Camellias in bloom everywhere!! We enjoyed them immensely.