Cherry Blossoms 2018 continued

The cherry blossoms in DC are still at their peak glory.  There's still time this year to see the glorious flowering of these special trees throughout the District, for a few more days.

Today's blossom-viewing trip took me and a friend to the Japanese American Memorial which is down the street a few blocks from Union Station towards the Capitol.  In this tiny, tranquil island of serenity and repose along busy Louisiana Avenue, two tethered cranes (by barbed wire, symbolizing the enclosures around the camps in hitherto uninhabited interior regions of the western states where Japanese American citizens from the west coast were interned during most of World War II) struggle to attain their former freedom.

The cherry blossom blooms on the trees surrounding the park, like all flowering petals, are very fragile, just like our democracy could be unless we are wise and ever-vigilant.  Never again, the country said in Reaganesque proclamations in the 1980s, or maybe going forward we should say, It couldn't happen here.  Right?

Many parts of DC are always noteworthy, often striking and sometimes beautiful.