The red (ぼけの花)
Originally uploaded by nofrills.
ぼけ (in kanji 木瓜; in English, Japanese quince). Read "bo-keh". It has no connections with another word ぼけ (bokeh) used in photography. The fruit looks like 瓜 (u-ri) so the tree was called 木瓜 (boku kuwa). It lated changed into "mok-ke", then "bo-ke".
Too windy to take pictures, and this one is a bit blurred. View large if you like.
