{"id":1050,"date":"2017-02-20T18:57:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T18:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2017-03-06T01:31:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T01:31:56","slug":"when-will-the-cherry-trees-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/when-will-the-cherry-trees-bloom\/","title":{"rendered":"When will the cherry trees bloom in D.C. ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1051\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1051\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Davis12_1000783.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1051\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1051\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Davis12_1000783.jpg\" alt=\"Yoshino Cherry trees encircle the tidal basin at Washington D.C.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Davis12_1000783.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Davis12_1000783-340x227.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Davis12_1000783-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1051\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yoshino Cherry trees encircle the tidal basin at Washington D.C.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This week, I\u00a0was thinking that\u00a0the trees may bloom very early this year, particularly as a friend in N.Carolina reported that dafodils bloomed early, in mid-February.<\/p>\n<p>Today, looking\u00a0on-line at <a href=\"https:\/\/cherryblossomwatch.com\">cherryblossomwatch.com<\/a><br \/>\nI see that the D.C. air temp\u00a0through\u00a0January and February this year has been warmer than the past six years.<\/p>\n<p>As spring arrived particularly early in 2012, the Yoshino Cherry trees around the tidal basin bloomed early and disappeared BEFORE the opening of the annual Cherry Blossom Festival.\u00a0 Thankfully, I achieved a bit of photography the day before a spring storm blew away all the Yoshino flowers.<\/p>\n<p>Historic first cherry bloom in D.C.<br \/>\n\u20222016: March 25<br \/>\n\u20222015: April 10<br \/>\n\u20222014: April 10<br \/>\n\u20222013: April 9<br \/>\n\u20222012: March 20<br \/>\n\u20222011: March 29<br \/>\n\u20222010: March 31<br \/>\n\u20222009: April 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I\u00a0was thinking that\u00a0the trees may bloom very early this year, particularly as a friend in N.Carolina reported that dafodils bloomed early, in mid-February. Today, looking\u00a0on-line at cherryblossomwatch.com I see that the D.C. air temp\u00a0through\u00a0January and February this year has been warmer than the past six years. As spring arrived particularly early in 2012, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20],"tags":[158,157],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-blossom","tag-cherry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1053,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions\/1053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}