Picnik with Cherry Blossoms

I love Japanese cherry blossom trees...I remember plucking the petals off as a child (only off ornamental cherry trees, of course; I'm too much of a cherry lover to risk losing any fruit!) and tucking them behind my ear like some tropical beauty. I took this photo one particularly fine spring day in May. I couldn't believe how late spring came to Mackenzie...May, and the blossoms only just blooming! I was in rapture over the colour of the blossoms in contrast with that of the sky, and knelt down to take a picture of the blossoms from underneath with the sky as a backdrop.

Not quite content, I loaded this photo into an amazing online program called picnik.com, which lets me edit the photo and use interested effects for free. Fun! I like the way it turned out..a little vintage, a little surreal, pretty.