This is my sister and her son sitting under the cherry blossoms tree. She is a great photographer and many of her pictures have been inspirations for me to paint. I like this particular picture a lot and decided to do it in oil on canvas sized 5" by 7".I had been to Washington D.C. during spring and had the good fortune to see cherry blossoms in bloom. The city of Tokyo gave the original 3,000 cherry trees as a gift to the city of Washington D. C. in 1912 as a symbol of friendship between the United States and Japan. The cherry blossom is a very delicate flower that blooms for a very short time. For the Japanese this represents the transience of life and for the Chinese the cherry blossom is a very significant symbol of love.When I looked at this picture I could see a special connection, a similarity as well as a difference. The mother child relationship is as special as cherry blossoms. But is it as transient as the flower? The following quote probably answers that!
"Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that suppose to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing." ~Toni Morrison, Beloved
