Ok, what's wrong with this picture? Or the one below. Zoom in a little and it's unmistakable: the plants here are pink. In the weeks and months since the 3.11 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster I've seen discolorations on bushes, shrubs, trees and flowers. The most common would be a reddening of leaves that look relatively normal - if it was late November.
But it's not November here. It's early July. And not all the plants I've seen have taken on the rust red color I talked about before.
Some have a whitish hue, like the color was sapped out of them.
Others have areas of green intermixed into the white and black spots, and look more like insect damage than anything. Which, who knows, it probably is insect damage, or leaked crap from someone's malfunctioning dryer, polluting the land.
And then here you have pink.
Is the radiation level around these pink plants high? No it isn't, not really. Still relatively low, tho I wouldn't sprinkle any of these pink delicacies on a salad.
But it is higher than the rocks and dirt - and normal looking greenery. Higher usually by a factor of x2 or a bit more. I don't want to post exact readings because I know my Geiger counter isn't so accurate at these low levels. But the levels are elevated, and in a repeatably measurable way.
More evidence that there has been some spread of radiation around the Kanto area, and that even low levels can affect the living world there.
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