Cherry Blossom Festival on the National Mall

 

The Cherry Blossom Festival is underway in DC, see the festival page at the Natinal Park Service (NPS) website for further information. Peak blossom time should be the middle of this week. The festival is Washington's biggest tourist event drawing about a million visitors each spring.

The photo above from the NPS is of a kwanzan cherry, the deeper pink of the dominant types on display at the National Mall. The trees, over 3,000 of them, were a gift of the Japanese government in 1912.