Each year, the National Cherry Blossom Festival commemorates the 1912 gift of 3,000 cherry trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo to the city of Washington, DC. The initial gift was represented by twelve varieties of which two, the Yoshino(white) and Kwanzan (pale pink), now dominate.
The gift and annual celebration honor the friendship between the United States and Japan. Thousands of tourists have been in DC hoping that sometime between March 20th and April 14th they will all blossom. There are parades, exhibitions, cherry blossom fun runs, bus tours, boat tours and even cherry coloured food events.
We feel we saw them at their peak on April 10th, on an unusually hot spring day.
By the weekend they'll be gone.
http://www.nationalcherryblossomfestival.org/
http://www.nps.gov/cherry/cherry-blossom-types.htm
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