Gift #5 『桜吹雪』(Sakura Fubuki) Goes To...

[aruarian_dancer]

my ever supportive, fun, witty, unfortunately-feeling-under-the-weather-at-the-moment catssyclaws!!!!! (This is part of the gifting meme from January 2009. I have 5 people each here and over at dA. So, 5 out of 10 done.)  Once again, it's my original version of Kaguya Hime (か～ぐやちゃ～ん!).

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[catssyclaws]

Duh I guess you might need my email lol

catssyclaws at yahoo dot com

XD

Thanks so much... yet again. Aaahh did I mention I love how you did the trees? It's almost animation style. I can hear the wind howling a sad tune to match her eyes. ^_^;

[aruarian_dancer]

You're so welcome. About the trees, yeah, you can almost hear some tune featuring a Chinese violin to make you cry. XD

I'll be sending you the HR file when I get done responding to the messages this morning. :)

[catssyclaws]

LOL YOU DID GOOD! XD You know I love pieces where I'm able to use my other senses. I wish I had cherry trees. Well real ones and not the wild ornament ones that grow around here ^_^

[aruarian_dancer]

I wish they have more cherry trees of any kind where I live. The closest I see are the sand cherries with tiny pink flowers. We have a lot of crabapple trees, which are beautiful, too. I need to keep planting more cherry trees. For some reason, I can't find the Yoshino cherries at garden centers lately. :(

[catssyclaws]

We have crabapple trees as well. And in a high wind man is it pretty to be around one lol

I wonder why they don't have any. If it's like maybe some sort of bug infestation or disease some strains of trees sometimes get. Then again I don't know much about horticulture. lol

[aruarian_dancer]

Out in the west, there's not much "history" or "culture" (I don't go "Wow, that house is 100 years old!" the way folks around here do. Mere 100 yrs don't come close to qualifying as old or historic in my book...XD) Unlike DC's tidal basin or Macon, Georgia, there simply hasn't been a mass planting of cherries done in this area. I also believe they're a little tricky in this dry climate with lots of poor clay soil. New neighborhoods are just now starting to get keen on planting cherries, but older neighborhoods mostly have ungly Chinese elm, globe willows, and sumac(their only virtue being fast growth and drought tolarence).

[catssyclaws]

lol We tear our history down, man and build car parks XD (<--semi-quoted from a comedian I like)

I bet it is hard to grown things in that dry climate. X( I never really tried to have a green thumb. Most of the stuff around here was here before. I mean I keep weeds away from the lilies, keep the blue bonnets tame, or well I try to, but man have they just sprang up everywhere this year. lol And I keep aloe vera plants XD I loves me some aloe vera!

Bah Elms are causing most of our pollen problems these days. Darn Elms! lol

[aruarian_dancer]

Speaking of Elms, I once had an old man next door who would come out with his ancient Electrolux vacuum cleaner and suck all those annoying Elm seeds up from his flower beds. His deteremination was inspirational. XD

[catssyclaws]

Wow! Now that's dedication XD