March 16th, searching for spring in Nanshan Park

The spring this year seems to have arrived a little late. I looked through last year's photos of the plum garden in Nanshan Park, and by March 5th, the plums were already in full bloom. Yesterday, when I went back to Nanshan Park, I only saw the winter-sweet plums about to bid farewell, and the plums in the plum garden were still just tiny buds, as seen in picture seven. The lanterns from the Zigong Lantern Festival will be open to the public for free this weekend evening, and then they will be taken down. There are already quite a few visitors during the day, and there might be even more in the evening.