Reuters
Posted on 03/27/2017 7:53:39 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
A mild winter followed by a spate of cold weather in Washington, made its mark on the city’s cherry blossoms, but the annual festival delighted first-time visitors on Sunday. The cherry blossom trees were a gift from Japan to the United States in 1912. The cherry blossom trees currently grow in three National Park Service locations, including the Tidal Basin, Hains Point and on the Washington Monument grounds.
The cold weather killed half of the blossoms on the Yoshino cherry trees just as they were reaching their peak. The National Park Service says on its website that peak bloom was reached Saturday, March 25, 2017.
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Gorgeous!
Our one little cherry tree is still struggling to bloom. But our experience is that the harder the spring and the fewer the cherries, the better the fruit. That is the fruit that the birds leave us.
They’re weeds around here.
Great pics, beautiful. MAGA!
Yesterday I saw a lemon (yellow) butterfly. Near a church. Been many years.
I wonder how the spring blooms are doing in Ft Marcy Park?
Maybe Schumer and Pelosi should take a lunch break stroll!
Considering the stories of George Washington’s youthful peccadillos, I suppose the Japanese gift had a little veiled but wry Oriental humor in it.
I wonder what Commodore Matthew Perry would think were he able to contemplate the consequences of the "friendly" sortie of his Navy flotilla into Tokyo bay . . . hmmm. And what Henry Ford would say given today's mass marketing of Toyotas, Hondas, Nissans, Subarus, Volkswagens, and Mercedes in the America that he put on wheels.
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