Such pretty flowers!

Cherry blossom season is here. Viewing the delicate flower is a seasonal excuse in Japan for friends, family and colleagues to get together and enjoy food and beers underneath the full bloom of sakura.

Strong winds and spring showers down cherry blossom petals.

Indian Cabbage White on mustard flowers.

Taking your puppy to a park where cherry blossoms are in bloom will make for great photo ops.

Cherry blossoms at Chidorigafuchi park near Kudanshita station in Tokyo.

Photo of Cherry Blossoms In January by Night Heron on Flickr.

Walking underneath the full bloom of sakura can feel like walking through a floral tunnel.

Flickr user y.ganden spotted a Japanese Bush Warbler in the blooming sakura trees.

They're all common ones Chinese jasmine, Japanese sencha, Earl Grey and a special blend that we prepared.

All this is to say that what will most likely go down in history as the Jasmine Revolution was, to all appearances, a secular revolution.

It's common to see people napping under the cherry blossoms after so much drinking.

Photo taken in Yawata, Kyoto on April 1, 2014 by Flickr user Japanexperterna.

He was propelled to the international stage in 2011 during the Tunisian Revolution, also known as the Jasmine Revolution, which was the first in a wave of uprisings in the Arab world called the Arab Spring.

The best thing in Nouakchott's short film festival was Twilight Flowers , the opening movie by Tunisian director Nassim al Korbi, which starred Mauritanian actor Salem Dando.

Given this, it would seem wrong, if not dangerous, to compare Tunisia and its Jasmine Revolution to other national contexts in the region.

Organized by the House of Mauritanian Filmmakers, the festival's opening was marked by the screening of Twilight Flowers , a Mauritanian, Saudi and Tunisian co production directed by Tunisian Nassim al Korbi and performed by Mauritanian actor Salem Dando.

RABAT Tunisia s Jasmine Revolution has thrown a spotlight on the consequences of stagnant economies and endemic youth unemployment for the region s authoritarian Arab governments.

And when you can do stuff like this These are my kids putting in this technology, and when you can build a roof that looks like that on a house that looks like that with sedum that looks like this, this is the new green graffiti.

Once this process begins, in most plants, it cannot be reversed and the stems develop flowers, even if the initial start of the flower formation event was dependent of some environmental cue.

Whatever the Jasmine Revolution s outcome, and even if it cannot become for the Arab world what the fall of the Berlin Wall was for Europe, it will establish a before and an after.

Indeed, the Jasmine Revolution embodies all the tenets of the liberal political order that the West has been advocating since the Atlantic Charter of 1941 a yearning for freedom, opportunity, and the rule of law.

The greatest danger is that the Jasmine Revolution could go the way of Romania s anti communist uprising of 20 years ago, with the old regime s underlings expelling their bosses in order to stay in power.

You would expect a city like this to have upgraded flower boxes on Michigan Avenue where wealthy people shop, but if you actually go along the street you find the flower boxes change from street to street there's actual diversity in the plants.

During the Jasmine crackdown in February this year, Chen's house was raided by a group of men who took away his computer, television, camera, books and documents and cut off his power and telephone line.

PARIS Tunisia s Jasmine Revolution is still unfolding, but we can already read into it lessons about democracy and democratization that extend far beyond the Maghreb.

But the message of Tunisia s Jasmine Revolution rings loud and clear democracy and the liberal political order in which it is rooted is not merely a Western concept (or a Western conspiracy), but holds universal attraction, powered by the craving for recognition.

On the list it would be stuff like, seeing the daffodils bloom in the spring, the smell of new mown hay, catching a wave and bodysurfing, the touch of a baby's hand, the sound of Doc Watson playing the guitar, listening to old records of Muddy Waters and Uncle Dave Macon.

If we look at the numerous jobs Indians perform in serving people, from the youngest to the oldest, these range from washing cars and selling jasmine on the streets, to building skyscrapers, shopping complexes and playgrounds, all the way to being managers and tycoons. Wherever you turn your face there is an Indian, and this is no surprise!