Showing posts with label Odori park. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Odori park. Show all posts

Sunday, July 6, 2014

My birthday

My birthday came and went. By far the quickest year of my life! It seemed as though it was just yesterday I had a little one in cupcake pants :)

We met our neighbors downstairs for some takoyaki and they were by far the best we've ever had! One of our neighbors even made me a Japanese cheesecake (crustless), and we had ice cream too! :) Yum!

After lunch, we went to the Hokkaido University botanical garden...but it had closed for the day! Bummer! 

So instead we went to the end of Odori park hoping to get some good rose appreciation. In the past, my birthday has followed the same formula: rain, cake, good food, roses, photography. It's funny to me that some things just never change. ;)




Cool slides in Odori park.






Look at the blooms! :)








Kevin and I agreed that this rose was the most intense red we'd ever seen.



These towers were just gorgeous. This rose was Butterscotch if I remember correctly.


The roses were beautiful, but pansies will always catch my eye ;)


















After the rose garden, we went to Kevin's school so he could check on his project and after that, we looked for Picante, a soup curry restaurant, which is by Hokudai. We found it tucked away and had an amazing soup curry dinner that has me salivating just remembering it! :) 
Great birthday indeed!

Friday, May 16, 2014

Odori park flowers

Thursday morning we set out to Odori park and to find the Hokkaido University botanical garden. The flower beds through out Odori park are just beautiful, lots of pansies and tulips. (My kinda people here!)





Sapporo is known for its lilacs. 
There's even a festival here in Odori park that they were setting up for! :) 
 

Kevin's always so embarrassed by the posed tourist shots. 
God forbid you take out a map! 
 




You can see in the back of this picture, they were setting up the vendor tents for the lilac festival.
 


The three of us are such geeks, this statue brought to mind good ol' GoT. ;)
 


There was a little corner of one of the blocks that had a whole spring flower display. So many pretty flowers. So many ideas for a future garden!
 

I tried getting some of the signs in the photos so I could remember the names. 
This was Tulipa "Santa Claus".
 

Tulipa 'candy prince'


Tulipa 'Lingerie'

Tulipa "Paul Scherrer"

Didn't get the name of this one...
 

 Ruffled pansies! AAaaaaaah! Viola 'Moulin Rouge Chianti'


One of my favorite tulips they had: 'Hemisphere'



Sleeping baby. :)
My composition and photo quality wasn't quite up to par in my opinion, but I took all these pictures with sleeping 10+ kg strapped to the front of me so you'll understand if I wasn't really into bending over LOL!
 

This little bit of the garden was my favorite. Oooh, gives me chills it's so pretty! Perfect shades of blue, pink, and purple. Tulips, daffodils, grape hyacinth, and pansies. Can it get more perfect?
 



This idea is going to stick with me for life: grape hyacinth path. 
♥♥
 

Next post: botanical garden fun!