The National Cherry Blossom Festival is back, commemorating the 101st anniversary of Japan’s gifting of 3,000 trees to Washington in 1912. This year’s festival runs March 20 to April 14. Read More

VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: The ground has been frozen under layers of snow. Daffodils are just now breaking the surface. The elm trees are two weeks late in starting to flower. And Washington’s hallowed cherry blossoms? A little banged up from the blizzards and wind and hampered by a lingering chill in the soil, but […]