Cherry Blossoms in Bloom

Now that I'm living down here in D.C., I figure I should make some sort of effort to go to the events that draw thousands of people here.

That means I felt obligated to go to this year's Cherry Blossom Festival when a friend invited me.

I didn't go to any of the special events--getting down there and back was enough of a challenge--but I did go, walk around a bit with the thousands of tourists, and take some pictures.

See them here.

The first few pictures are from during the week when my department decided an "off site meeting" was in order. We all went down to the tidal basin, had some lunch and talked business for about ten minutes. The blossoms were just starting to bloom.

The rest of the pictures are from Saturday, a couple of days after the blossoms hit full bloom.

My friend and I did a complete circuit around the tidal basin, hitting the Jefferson Memorial and the FDR Memorial along the way. We came through the FDR Memorial backwards, so to see how it's supposed to look, you're going to have to skip to the end and reverse the order of the pictures.

All these memorials kind of make me wonder if any of the recent presidents will ever get "remembered" in ways like these. And if they do, what would the monuments look like?