When the weather bigins to warm,the buds of the flowers always exciedly come to life and begin to grow. My next door neighbour’s magnolia will begin to have many flowers now. The flower is white and elegant,blooming several on branch. Each one blooms a pure white flower, symbolic of paradise. what a good name the magnolia is ! A characteristic of this flower is that it blooms on a big tree,and oh,how big a flower it blooms into! whenever I see this flower, I am reminded that surely paradise does not exist only after death,but is here now and can be seen in this flower. By the way,this magnolia opened to have a white flower in the middle of the equinoctial week. I am thankful that my neighbour planted a white magnolia. Seeing this flower makes me feel like the Bon Festival has come in the spring time. 英訳:平野健