{"id":3650,"date":"2011-03-28T07:48:38","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T11:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?p=3650"},"modified":"2015-12-27T12:06:26","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T17:06:26","slug":"the-cherry-blossoms-are-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2011\/03\/the-cherry-blossoms-are-here\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cherry Blossoms are Here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cherry blossoms just burst into bloom on my street. They are gorgeous! They are just in time for DC&#8217;s annual Cherry Blossom Festival. This year, there is a special tribute to Japan in light of their recent earthquake, tsunami and nuclear power situation. It&#8217;s so overwhelming the amount of damage and help needed; it&#8217;s hard to know where to start. There are plenty of charitable giving opportunities out there but recent events in Japan makes this year&#8217;s cherry blossoms all the more celebrated. *<\/p>\n<p>I have so many mural sites collected but a cherry blossom mural was hard to come by except by searching. Only then, did I come across <a title=\"Sculpture SenCe\" href=\"http:\/\/sculpturesence.com\/InteriorsDesignGallery.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Sculpture SenCe&#8217;s site<\/a> and Santi Vipaka&#8217;s wonderful artwork. You&#8217;ll have to go to his site to see more but here&#8217;s his Cherry Blossom Mural.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3656\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3656\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"SenCe Cherry Blossom Mural\" href=\"http:\/\/sculpturesence.com\/InteriorsDesignGallery.aspx\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3656\" title=\"C_Sculpture_SenCe_Mural\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/C_Sculpture_SenCe_Mural.jpg\" alt=\"Sculpture_SenCe_Mural on Art-Is-Everywhere\" width=\"490\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/C_Sculpture_SenCe_Mural.jpg 490w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/C_Sculpture_SenCe_Mural-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cherry Blossom Mural by Sculpture SenCe and Santi Vipaka<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another Asian inspired mural in Toronto&#8217;s <a title=\"Rosewater Supper Club\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bizbash.com\/rosewater_supper_club_gets_new_look_with_gold_murals_new_bistro\/toronto\/story\/16594\" target=\"_blank\">Rosewater\u00a0 Supper Club<\/a> restaurant.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Rosewater Supper Club\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bizbash.com\/rosewater_supper_club_gets_new_look_with_gold_murals_new_bistro\/toronto\/story\/16594\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3661\" title=\"Supper Club_mural in Toronto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/A_SupperClub_mural.jpg\" alt=\"Supper Club_mural in Toronto, seen on Art Is Everywhere\" width=\"490\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/A_SupperClub_mural.jpg 490w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/A_SupperClub_mural-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I seem to get inspired every time I see the cherry blossoms bloom and these are my many <a title=\"Previous posts regarding Cherry Blossoms\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?s=cherry+blossom\" target=\"_blank\">postings regarding this time of year<\/a>. The blooms are fleeting and only last 12 &#8211; 14 days and that is weather conditional. This weekend, we had a dusting of snow. Hopefully this will help them last longer.<\/p>\n<p>* When I posted <a title=\"Previous post on trompe l'oeil art\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?p=3536\" target=\"_blank\">this mural from Osaka on March 7th<\/a>, the Japanese tsunami was just about ready to happen on March 12th. Call it coincidental but I find it a little uncanny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cherry Blossoms and Japanese Festival are discussed on Art Is Everywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,6,1547,31,64,1],"tags":[1774,1775],"class_list":["post-3650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrations-and-all-including-sad-events","category-inspiration","category-mural-mondays","category-murals","category-nature","category-uncategorized","tag-cherry-blossom-festival","tag-japanese-tribute"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cherry Blossoms are Here<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Cherry Blossoms are Here on Art Is Everywhere\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2011\/03\/the-cherry-blossoms-are-here\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cherry Blossoms are Here\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Cherry Blossoms are Here on Art Is Everywhere\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2011\/03\/the-cherry-blossoms-are-here\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ArtIsEverywhere\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-03-28T11:48:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-12-27T17:06:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/C_Sculpture_SenCe_Mural.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"casart\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@casartcoverings\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@casartcoverings\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"casart\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2011\\\/03\\\/the-cherry-blossoms-are-here\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2011\\\/03\\\/the-cherry-blossoms-are-here\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"casart\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7386efc0ded244523b35adaf1e387f00\"},\"headline\":\"The Cherry Blossoms are Here!\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-03-28T11:48:38+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-12-27T17:06:26+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2011\\\/03\\\/the-cherry-blossoms-are-here\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":262,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7386efc0ded244523b35adaf1e387f00\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2011\\\/03\\\/the-cherry-blossoms-are-here\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2011\\\/03\\\/C_Sculpture_SenCe_Mural.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Cherry Blossom Festival\",\"Japanese tribute\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Celebrations &amp; 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