The Cherry Blossoms 2019

Washington is famous in the spring for its flowering and beautifully colorful blossoming of the Cherry Blossom trees around the Tidal Basin, gifts from Japan when we were their friends (after WWI), before we were their enemies (WWII) and now we're their bosom buddies (post Occupation, but pre-Trump).

Pink and white natural colors of the blooms are riotous, but the wildlife don't notice.

I was in Europe, my first trip overseas, when the blossoms were at their peak.

But when I got back, I traversed the Tidal Basin a few days after The Peak and it was singularly still beautiful, before it subsided very quickly into the green leaves of the actual growing phase of these special trees.