Saturday, March 29, 2008

A bumper crop of tourists

Spring has officially arrived in D.C. with the Cherry Blossom Festival, though I'm still undecided if I'm going to fight the crowds to go gawk today.

It's tough for me to get my head around celebrating spring in March, having spent most of my life in Central New York and then seven years in Oregon. At this time of year in Central New York, you're still very much in winter -- I think they got five or six inches of snow yesterday. In Oregon, you're still a good two months (or more) away from the end of the gray and the rain.

Here, it's been warming for weeks and everything is starting to bloom. Weird.

1 comment:

C said...

indeed, we had about 5 or so inches when i woke up friday morning! happy spring! :-)
this week though, it is supposed to be warmer...so i expect snow the following week.