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The Nitobe Memorial garden in Vancouver is a traditional Japanese garden, tucked in between a few ugly buildings and a small piece of forest with huge Douglas firs on the University of British Columbia campus. On a road nearby, there was quite a lot of traffic, but the moment I walked in through the gate during my visit in 2012, it was as if the rest of the world disappeared. The cherry trees were blooming and the newly opened leaves were bright green. In the middle of the garden, there was a pond and the shelter of the trees blocked out all the noise and the wind, so that the surface of the water was calm and bright as a mirror.
Photo: The Nitobe Memorial Garden, Vancouver, Canada, May 2012. Posted on Instagram December 29, 2020.
Katja Malmborg 