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My favorite local gang (not exactly your average local street gang) is the
Capital Weather Gang, the Washington Post’s top-flight collection of weather
nerds, who usually begin each day’s weather report with an overall rating on a scale of 1 - 10.
Today's grade was a 9 (https://wapo.st/2G5Ceiz) and yesterday earned a perfect 10 (https://wapo.st/2G3aObU). I suspect today would have gone to 10
as well, if not for a reluctance to give out two perfect grades in a row and
appear to be an easy grader.
Yesterday’s perfect score was illustrated with this retweeted photo:
Yesterday’s perfect score was illustrated with this retweeted photo:
Judging by the photographic evidence, I for one would have awared both days the
top score. Which brings me to the subject of photos of the trees in bloom. This
year the Post outdid itself in aerial photography of the Tidal Basic at peak
bloom seen from space: https://wapo.st/2G6THXN.
But the Official Cherry Blossom Festival Guide’s photographic
how-to page took the opposite approach, urging amateur cherry blossom camera-phone
picture takers to zoom in for tight close-up of the blossoms this year:
You’ll still have another week to take some dazzling photos
of the trees in bloom, whether zoomed in or out.
Think you’ll never be able to take the sort of photos that
make it into the Capital Weather Gang’s annual parade of cherry blossom images?
You won’t know till you try – and here’s a gallery of inspiration for you:
and
But why confine yourself to the trees of DC when there are
cherry blossoms in bloom all over the world? Take a look at this slideshow of
spectacular blossoms from around the world, as captured by the lens master of
National Geographic:
Hope you all enjoyed the weekend. It’s not often we get them
like that!
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Still Life with Robin is posted on the Cleveland ParkListserv and on All Life Is Local on Saturdays….and sometimes (like this weekend) on Sundays.
I was happy to see today’s blog post from the tree-loving/tree-supporting Casey Trees Foundation – see below – which struck me as an excellent follow-up to the column above, posted yesterday, about our cherry trees in bloom. Go to the Casey Trees map at http://bit.ly/2VvRnPb (copy and paste the link) and you will find a tree-by-tree guide to every flowering tree in town. If you want to see beautiful blossoms, you don’t need to go anywhere near the densely packed walkways around the Tidal Basin. A great resource for agoraphobes – or just people who hate to be stuck in tourist mobs!
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Casey Trees Blog Post
By Jona Elwell April 8, 2019
We Updated our Blossoming Tree Map
Tourists from all over the country — even the world — flock to D.C. to get a glimpse (and the perfect Instagram) of the cherry blossoms lining the Tidal Basin. However, the Tidal Basin is not the only place to find those cherry blossoms — nor is the cherry tree the only tree that produces beautiful blooms!
Many trees from the American Linden to the magnolia produces gorgeous flowers and blossoms! Now to figure out where to find these majestic blooms. We’ve made it easy and updated our Blossoming Tree Map! Check it out: http://bit.ly/2VvRnPb