Cherry Blossom Lingo: a haze of flowers

One of the cherry blossom terms I really like is hanagasumi 花霞 a flower haze / haze of flowers in English. It describes the way fully blooming cherry blossoms appear from a distance; so pale, soft, and abundant that they resemble a drifting spring haze. 

Rather than focusing on individual petals, the word evokes the collective blur of blossoms, a landscape transformed into a shimmering veil of white‑pink light. This term appears in classical poetry and seasonal writing. It is used to symbolize spring's gentle transience and / or a dream-like softened world and / or beauty that blurs the boundary between reality and illusion.

Not only do I really like the word "hanagasumi", I love the phenomenon too. Where the individual shape of the cherry blossoms merge into a luminous veil as if spring itself were exhaling a gentle breath over the hills.