{"id":343,"date":"2012-03-28T01:55:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T01:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/?p=343"},"modified":"2012-10-25T12:52:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T12:52:25","slug":"cherry-blossoms-in-washington-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/cherry-blossoms-in-washington-d-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherry Blossoms in Washington D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"

2012 is the 100th anniversary of a gift.\u00a0 The Mayor of Tokyo Japan gave 3000 cherry trees to the people of Washingington DC. That’s a lot of trees.\u00a0And as they bloom (all at the same time), that’s a riot of pink color that draws a pretty big crowd.\u00a0But this year, if you did not come to this party early, you missed most of the show.<\/p>\n

Normally, the magnificent flowers of these cherry trees begin to bloom around March 24 and peak during first week of April.\u00a0 This year, the warm weather in March caused the trees to bloom far earlier.\u00a0 And the show was over on March 25.<\/p>\n

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The first photo here is from March 23.\u00a0 The second was shot this morning, March 27.\u00a0 You can see what happened due to rain and wind over the weekend.<\/p>\n

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The crowd of people on Friday was crazy.\u00a0 Almost like the Esplanade in Boston on the Fourth of July (almost).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Not all is lost.\u00a0\u00a0 These cherry trees here are the famoush Yoshino cherry trees.\u00a0 But there are a few other species that are still\u00a0blooming nicely, for example the Kwanzan cherry trees are stunning (though there are not nearly as many).\u00a0 The area around the Jefferson Memorial is quite\u00a0nice.\u00a0 And D.C. is looking quite green these days as deciduous trees are beginning to leaf out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2012 is the 100th anniversary of a gift.\u00a0 The Mayor of Tokyo Japan gave 3000 cherry trees to the people of Washingington DC. That’s a lot of trees.\u00a0And as they bloom (all at the same time), that’s a riot of pink color that draws a pretty big crowd.\u00a0But this year, if you did not come […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","category-seasonal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","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=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}