Spring is the season for pilgrimages, @slowwalker and your visit to the Sil Sang Sa temple coincided with cherry blossom time.

Life starts over in the spring and as in your image of the river, our lives were not ended, only frozen and interrupted by winter, but now beginning to flow again.

As Camus wrote, " In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy."

Being out in spring during blossom time makes you feel renewed and sharing your trip with your mother makes you happier still.

Have a good day ,my friend.