soapbox

The cherry trees are in bloom in Washington DC right now. Kirsten and I have never seen the spectacle that is 3000 Japanese cherries in bloom, so this Saturday we drove down to check it all out.

Here’s the takeaway: if you read in the news that 1,000,000 million people are going to be somewhere to do a thing, you don’t want to be doing that thing as well. There wasn’t enough room to turn around, much less get a good picture of the blossoms. Throw in the normal DC problems of lousy parking and confusing streets and you have a recipe for disaster.

It would have been really cool if there were no people though. The trees were very impressive, although they’re also looking pretty old. I’m not sure what the life span of a flowering cherry tree is, but some of the trees are starting to look pretty old and a little bit diseased.