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Washington's cherry blossoms bloom despite cold snap
Yahoo! News ^ | 3/27/17 | yahoo

Posted on 03/27/2017 7:53:39 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

A mild winter followed by a spate of cold weather in Washington, made its mark on the city’s cherry blossoms, but the annual festival delighted first-time visitors on Sunday. The cherry blossom trees were a gift from Japan to the United States in 1912. The cherry blossom trees currently grow in three National Park Service locations, including the Tidal Basin, Hains Point and on the Washington Monument grounds.

The cold weather killed half of the blossoms on the Yoshino cherry trees just as they were reaching their peak. The National Park Service says on its website that peak bloom was reached Saturday, March 25, 2017.

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TOPICS: Agriculture; Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: bloom; blossom; blossoms; cherries; cherry; cherryblossoms; coldsnap; flower; flowers; washington; washingtondc

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1 posted on 03/27/2017 7:53:39 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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2 posted on 03/27/2017 7:54:41 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Gorgeous!


3 posted on 03/27/2017 8:06:36 PM PDT by madison10 (Bless you, Mr. DJ Trump.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Our one little cherry tree is still struggling to bloom. But our experience is that the harder the spring and the fewer the cherries, the better the fruit. That is the fruit that the birds leave us.


4 posted on 03/27/2017 8:13:15 PM PDT by Mercat
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They’re weeds around here.


5 posted on 03/27/2017 8:13:37 PM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Great pics, beautiful. MAGA!


6 posted on 03/27/2017 8:14:21 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: NormsRevenge

Yesterday I saw a lemon (yellow) butterfly. Near a church. Been many years.


7 posted on 03/27/2017 8:48:45 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Happy Nobama!)
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To: NormsRevenge

I wonder how the spring blooms are doing in Ft Marcy Park?

Maybe Schumer and Pelosi should take a lunch break stroll!


8 posted on 03/27/2017 11:53:48 PM PDT by Noob1999
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To: NormsRevenge

Considering the stories of George Washington’s youthful peccadillos, I suppose the Japanese gift had a little veiled but wry Oriental humor in it.


9 posted on 03/28/2017 2:54:06 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: NormsRevenge
An inscrutable present from the Mayor of Tokyo,considering their surprise package on December 7, 1941, and our rather heavy-handed response of August 1945. Reminds me of a sort of Woody-Allen-ish sort of scenario.

I wonder what Commodore Matthew Perry would think were he able to contemplate the consequences of the "friendly" sortie of his Navy flotilla into Tokyo bay . . . hmmm. And what Henry Ford would say given today's mass marketing of Toyotas, Hondas, Nissans, Subarus, Volkswagens, and Mercedes in the America that he put on wheels.

10 posted on 03/28/2017 3:28:26 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: NormsRevenge
Trump effect?

11 posted on 03/28/2017 6:03:52 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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