This church and cemetery can be found on Petworth high road in West Sussex.
I love this combination of old stone, old bones in the ground and the freshest, delicate blossom.
In Japan the spring cherry blossoms symbolized the ephemeral nature of life, ‘mono no aware’, the ” bittersweet pathos of things”.
For over 1000 years the Japanese have practised the art of Hanumi, picnicing under Cherry trees when they are in blossom and every spring the nation follows the gradual blossom of the cherry trees as the flowering season travels northward.
