Plucking the blossoms from the cherry trees
So for the first time in perhaps a few weeks, I’ve managed to have some time to myself. But albeit not completely detached from the rest of the world - you see, I have a blackberry. Yeah, that’s right. The kind folks at work (hehe) gave me a blackberry to keep connected to everything (a little bit too late, but still quite useful) so now I’m able to post, read, and send emails out to all my favorite people. woohoo for me!
Anyways, so yesterday was the second week of the Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, DC and I managed to stumble by because the weather turned out to be really good for picture taking. As usual, the area around Tidal Basin was particularly crowded. I managed to snap about 600+ photos with my camera and they cam out pretty well. I did notice that people were pretty much neglecting a key part of watching the cherry blossoms…watching. There was a severe lack of Park Ranger presence around the area to help regulate the actions of a select few. These folks are grabbing the cherry blossoms, climbing the trees, and plucking ‘em from the branches…all of which are deadly for the trees and can ruin it for everyone. But did anyone care? No…of course not! Anything to get a good picture with your friends and family, right?
Walked around a little bit more before stopping by the Jefferson Memorial. The view was nice, but when trying to watch the performances on the stage it was quite irritating when people who walked by decided to stop right in front of everyone watching. There was this lady who got into words with one of the people standing in front. It was quite entertaining. But soon after I decided it was enough and walked back around the FDR memorial…one of the last memorials I hadn’t seen before. It was an interesting walk…plenty of cherry blossom trees and lots of people taking pictures and their sweet damn time walking through. Needless to say that I really don’t like crowds…hehe…
But that’s for another day…
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