Cherries are red.

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.

The early flowering cherry blossoms are in full bloom!

Strong winds and spring showers down cherry blossom petals.

A path is covered in cherry blossom petals.

Cell Wood

Decorative Wood

A cherry petal accidentally fell into a drink.

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.

Spring in Japan Means More Than Just Flowering Cherry Trees

So all you need is good cheese and a jar of black cherry jam.

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.

Cherry 01 adjusted its flight plan and made up the time lost at engine start.

The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits and its corners, and its length, and its walls, were of wood and he said to me, This is the table that is before Yahweh.

The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length thereof two cubits and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and the walls thereof, were of wood and he said unto me, This is the table that is before the LORD.

In some European traditions sour cherries are used both between the layers and for decorating the top.

The doors are made of teak wood from India.

You shall make poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

You shall make the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing up.

You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

He made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing up.

He made poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.

He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.

He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with brass.

And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.

And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up.

And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.

And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up.

And he made staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.

And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.

And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with brass.

Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon and behold, my servants shall be with your servants,

Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,

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

You shall make an altar to burn incense on. You shall make it of acacia wood.

King Solomon made himself a carriage of the wood of Lebanon.

And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon of shittim wood shalt thou make it.

King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.

The king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of Yahweh, and for the king's house, harps also and stringed instruments for the singers there came no such almug trees, nor were seen, to this day.

And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for singers there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day.

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

You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with brass.