tuesday march 3

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last tuesday we spent the whole morning and part of the afternoon at the national garden where i painted and sketched some spots and witnessed some of the cherry blossoms of spring

there i had deer meet curry and sketched the sakuras with the old artists

we traveled the rest of the afternoon by train and arrived at gifu from tokyo before midnight

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