More ume blossoms

I love flowers and taking pictures of flowers, so I really hope that you don't get bored of all my flower pictures! The plum blossom (Prunus mume) seasons is basically over, and the cherry blossom season is just starting up, so there are going to be many more pictures to come. This past wednesday, I went on an adventure with Kyli to Makuyama Park in Yugawara. The park was formed by the Hakone volcano and has many trees, flowers, hiking trails, mountainous hills, and a river flowing through it. During the plum blossom season, over 4,000 planted trees are in bloom! After wandering around the park for a while, Kyli and I somehow ended up hiking a trail with a bunch of other people. And when I mean people, I mean elderly Japanese who are in super great shape and can hike up a mountain like nothing! It was a pretty decent hike, and I at least felt like a weakling compared to all these elderly people! The higher up the mountain we got, the friendlier the people were. Everytime we past by someone or a group of people, we always got a Konnichiwa or.. something we couldn't understand.

Here are pictures!

In this picture, you can see a small overview of the park. Kyli and I ended up climbing to the top of the mountain/hill in this picture. The white and pink blotches along the hillside are the plum blossom trees in fuuuuulll bloom!

This tree was filled with slightly pink and half pink/half white flowers! Cross-pollination perhaps??

I tried playing with these new macro filters that I got. I'm still figuring out how to get the best shots and depth of field, but look at these beautiful stamen! 

The park was a popular spot for many rock climbers.

The view was beautiful at the top of the mountain/hill. We could see the ocean, and well, that was the best part. 

Proof that I made it to the top.