We Missed the Cherry Blossoms!

On my blogging, um, hiatus (we'll call it that instead of a batch of extreme laziness), cherry blossom season happened. Cherry blossom season is nothing short of magical. If you have never seen our National Monuments sprouting from the thousands of blossoms of pale, pale pink, you have never seen beauty. I loved it so much last year that this year I actually took a vacation day so I could start taking photos at sunrise and walk the whole Mall. It is my favorite thing about living in D.C.

Get ready for a photo heavy post!

 

This should show you how dumb the National Parks Service is. Right before prime tourist season, they begin work reinforcing the Monument, visible from basically every spot in D.C. Hence, all my shots are in silhouette.

Look at just how thin the blossom leaves are - they are so incredibly delicate!  The wind blows, and petals dance in the air on the way to the ground.

The blossoms grow in clumps and feel so soft they could melt away in your hand,

I loved how still the Tidal Basin was all morning, before the paddle boaters are out.

 

By the time I made it around the Basin, the sun had fully risen.

Back to Blogging

I have failed miserably at blogging...again... Shocking, I know. But I've decided that I can probably blog once a week so here I am recommitting!

To start off, I want to share some of the pictures I took at the Cherry Blossom Festival. There are SO MANY great things about living in DC, and as I discovered a few weeks ago the cherry blossoms are definitely one of them. Plush petals of the softest pink you can imagine burst onto the scene. They completely encompass the Tidal Basin so all you can see is the gorgeous Potomac river and clouds of cherry blossoms slung low around the shore. People say it's incredible and they are vastly underselling. I couldn't get enough!

Paddle boaters cruising the Potomac - Jefferson Memorial.

Left: A look across the Tidal Basin.


Below: Cute ducks at the pond below the Monument.

 

There's this little enclosure down below the Washington Monument that was just packed with cherry trees.

 The cherry blossoms are so thin and gentle. The second it rains, they all fall. I'm so glad I went out when I did because it rained two days later!

And I loved these contrasting colors!

 

Can you imagine walking underneath this heavenly layer of pale pink flowers as you gaze across the Potomac at the Jefferson Memorial?