A panoply of pink and white: D.C.’s National Cherry Blossom Festival [SLIDESHOW] (Daily Caller)

Tuesday, March 29, 2011 2:01 PM By dwi

It’s that instance of assemblage again!

Tourists crowd to pedagogue with cameras primed and people waffle over lunch breaks as the municipality explodes with sound and white blossoms. The National Cherry Blossom Festival kicked soured Saturday and runs through Apr 10, commemorating the 1912 gift of 3,000 cherry trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo to the municipality of Washington.

This year’s festival began with a commendation to Japan, the country responsible for the magic that blooms crossways the regularise every spring. The victims of the seism and wave remained in the thoughts of festivity attendees who participated in a “Stand for Japan” solidarity march.

Those fascinated in attending the festivity crapper meet the National Cherry Blossom Festival’s website, download the pedagogue Examiner’s authorised guide or download the festivity app for Android and iPhones.

TheDC commemorates the approaching outflow with a excess of pretty sound pictures and portraits of D.C.’s famous monuments set against a seafaring of blossoms.

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