Nanohana

Tod & I joined our neighbor Shinji on an outing to Satte, Saitama-ken, to view Japan’s “other” spring flower, nanohana. It’s called “rape” in English, which might contribute to why I never knew it in the US. When we eat it, we call it rapini.
I put a selection of our photos on Flickr if you want to see the carpet of brilliant yellow we experienced. I tried a watercolor sketch, but am not satified with it. I might use it for the basis of sone other drawing instead.
P.S. In case you wonder, it’s na-no-hana, vegetable flower, not nano-hana, teeny-tiny flower.