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Our very own cherry blossoms

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Sure, the Cherry Blossoms Festival draws big crowds in DC, but the cherry blossoms that really get me going are the ones in our very own garden!

We have a truly wonderful cherry tree that grows next to our house. It makes the juiciest and most delicious cherries ever, and it makes so many of them that we simply can’t eat them all.

So you can understand why we get so excited when it goes into bloom, which incidentally happened this weekend. It looks like another bumper crop of super-cherries this summer! :-)

Young sunflowers

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There are few flowers that can match young sunflowers in splendor, simply because very few flowers get so big and have such vivid yellow hues. The yellows, coupled with the soft greens in the center, make for a splendid combination. It’s no wonder that young sunflowers appear in many a painted still life from centuries past.

DC Cherry Blossoms in 2006

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We had fun at the 2006 Cherry Blossom Festival, as you’ll see from the photos. There were more people that year — they grew from year to year, as I pointed out before. Ligia and I took our time walking around and I got some interesting photos as a result. I think when you compare these photos with the ones I got in previous years, like in 2003, you can see a clear difference. I could see it too, and I was happy because of it.

The Spring of 2005

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Here are selected photos from the spring of 2005. I love the freshness of spring. Everything is new and the green is a soft, nascent color that hasn’t yet matured into the dark green of summer. If only there would be more foliage… I think if we combined the colors of spring with the thick foliage of summer, nature would be even more resplendent.

Flowers for Women’s Day

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Today is International Women’s Day, so I’d like to wish all the women reading this a wonderful year in which their dreams come true.

Where would we (men) be without you? The answers to that question are frightening. I certainly wouldn’t be here without one particular woman (my mom) and I wouldn’t be the man I am without another particular woman (my lovely wife). Thank you both! :-)

It’s a safe bet that all of you got flowers by now, right? Well, I’m going to top those gifts! I’m going to give you lots of flowers from all seasons and various geographic areas. They may be virtual, but they’re uploaded in high res, so you can download them and enjoy them in full screen. (An added plus is they won’t wilt.)

DC Cherry Blossoms in 2003

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Back in 2003, I visited DC to lay the groundwork for what would turn out to be a new period in my life. I say that because my time there was distinctly different from what I did before and also from what I’m doing now.

It was about the time of the annual Cherry Blossom Festival, so I drove around, taking photos. I was still using a film camera back then, but it wasn’t my Canon Elph, it was possibly a Minolta. Not sure anymore. What I know for sure is that whatever film lab developed these photos, oversaturated them. (I really need to take the time to scan my negatives at some point.)

Until then, here are a few photos taken at that time.