2012/03/10(Sat) - Dead flower with skeleton leaves in forest

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I went in the "Aoba-no-mori" forest in Sendai city.
It had snowed yesterday.

The view around me was almost white due to snow covered the ground.

I found a dead flower of Atractylodes japonica (called "Okera" in Japanese) on the walking road side.
The leaves were etched by winds, rains and snows.
And the leaves had become "skeleton" by just only veins.

It seems to be cold.