A happy horror film: The Blossoms That Ate Tokyo
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Cherry Blossoms To Uncle Sam: Drop Dead
WASHINGTON - There’s good news for those of you who plan to go to the National Cherry Blossom Festival Parade and the Sakura Matsuri-Japanese Street Festival. The events will happen Saturday, even if there is a federal shutdown.
Metropolitan Police officers will help out with the logistics. “If there is a government shutdown, the parade route will be altered slightly,” says Festival President Diana Mayhew. (via WTOP.com)
A different kind of snow
(Photo: Avie Schneider)
Still peaking
(Photo: Avie Schneider)
Cherry blossoms around the tidal basin in the early half of the 20th century. Photo by Harris & Ewing, Library of Congress. This year’s peak blooming period is March 29 - April 3. (We kick off this year’s National Cherry Blossom Festival this Saturday—more info here!)
That pink tree, she’s the willy, early type of cherry tree:)
How D.C.’s Cherry Blossoms Almost Didn’t Bloom : NPR
The first group of trees arrived in Washington early in 1910. They were inspected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and found to be infested with “several kinds of pests, big bugs, little bugs, and fungi, some of them unknown to this country and therefore extremely dangerous.”
The trees had to be burned, and, to avoid a diplomatic incident, regrets were sent to the Japanese people.
PHOTO OF THE DAY: Cherry blossoms are seen in front of the Washington Monument at the Tidal Basin on Friday. The annual Cherry Blossom Festival begins Saturday. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)
“I think that people who do take the moment to observe the customs will probably seek relief from tension, and also think back about the inherent meaning of these blossoms — that life is short.”
