Falling
blossoms flying about like snow-flake/Carlos Pueblo
From D.C. Metro
Smithsonian station walking toward the Washington
Monument, I
am used to get across the 14th street and walk around
the Monument
ground then enter the crown part of the Tidal Basin.
Tidal Basin
is an Army Engineers’ project which has solved the flood
problem of
the early capital of the nation. The crown part of the lake,
Tidal Basin,
is like a bow which contains a crescent and a bowstring which
is the
Independent Avenue. I start my annual inspection of cherry blossom
from the
north end of the bow toward the west of the crown. This was a
week after
the official declaration of the Yoshino peak, I could witness the
falling
blossoms, the snow-fake like petals flying around on the ground,
avenue, and
lake surface. It’s very beautiful. I have seen some classical
Japanese
movies which describe the scenery of
falling blossoms and real
Snowfall simultaneously,
for instance, the Miamoto Mushashi the double
Swords samurai
master.
At the
western end of the crown or the bow, I call it the beginning of the park.
About one
hundred years ago, in 1910 in Taisho Emperor era, Japanese merchant
In Tokyo
gave 3,000 flowing cherry trees to Washington D.C. in appreciation of
the help of
the truce treaty of Russo-Japan war in Manchuria China which was 1905.
I believe
firmly because Japanese did the same thing at Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Only that
New Hampshire did not keep it, same as D.C. authority which destroyed
the original
shipment. Current day trees were from the second effort. You can see
the landmark
of a stone lantern and a monument for those involved the effort. It has
been 106
years and some of the original trees are still alive on this area with no mark
on them to
protect the privacy and safety from the tourists.
This is one
of the famous photo points of Tidal Basin, the hanging flowing branches
reach to the
surface of the lake with a background of Jefferson Memorial or Washington
Memorial, of
course, you must take a special angle from distance to get Lincoln Memorial
covered. I was walking toward the Roosevelt Memorial
to see if I could join a free tour of
the park
ranger, by that, I passed the newly addition of the Memorial of the late Martin
Luther King,
Jr. it was an early blossom peak of Yashino cherry to miss King’s birthday of
April 8;
however, if the park planted Kwanzan cherry which might be about a right time.
I’ll
describe what I run into a fully blossom of Akebono cherry on the Roosevelt
Memorial
on my next
page in details.
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