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The National Cherry Blossom Festival is returning with all its pageantry, Washington's unofficial re-emergence from two years of pandemic limits and closures. “This year, more than ever, you ...
The Jefferson Memorial visible through cherry blossoms across the Tidal Basin. The National Cherry Blossom Festival is a spring celebration in Washington, D.C., commemorating the March 27, 1912, gift of Japanese cherry trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo City to the city of Washington, D.C. Ozaki gave the trees to enhance the growing friendship between the United States and Japan and also ...
The Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival; Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival of Greater Philadelphia, a spring celebration; The annual Cherry Blossom Festival at Branch Brook Park in Newark, New Jersey; The annual Cherry Blossom Festival in San Francisco, CA ; International Cherry Blossom Festival in Macon, GA; Hanami, a traditional Japanese custom of ...
The Japanese Lantern is a stone lantern in West Potomac Park, Washington, D.C. It is located next to the Tidal Basin, among the cherry trees first planted in 1912. It is lighted during the annual National Cherry Blossom Festival.
After the National Cherry Blossom Festival ends on April 14, the NPS is slated to remove nearly 160 cherry trees in the capital, in an effort to repair the city’s deteriorating seawalls. The ...
Snow and ice accumulate on a blooming cherry tree in Washington, Saturday, March 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) Warmer weather is beginning to thaw out parts of the Southeast and mid-Atlantic ...
A girl flies a kite at the 2013 Blossom Kite Festival. The first Blossom Kite Festival took place on the Washington Monument grounds on Sunday, April 10, 2011, following a postponent from March 27 because of forecasted inclement weather. [9] The 2012 Blossom Kite festival took place on the Washington Monument grounds on Saturday, March 31. [10 ...
No matter the weather, the National Cherry Blossom Festival goes on, drawing more than a million visitors per year. Mayhew said, "About 45% of those are visitors.