Blue may also be associated with sympathy. This lovely spring flower blooms in a range of blue shades, from the palest baby blue to the deepest navy blue to almost black. When given as a gift ...

Tourists are turning out to stroll the flower-lined grounds of Hitachi Seaside Park in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki Prefecture, and enjoy the millions of baby blue nemophila now blanketing its bucolic hills.