The blossoms seemed to have largely withstood the wind and rain Saturday.
A week after the National Park Service announced peak bloom, cherry trees at the Tidal Basin were still putting on a show Sunday. For a second successive Sunday, the cherry blossoms remained in bloom in the capital, displaying their brilliant whiteness against a bright blue sky on Palm Sunday, this year’s first Sunday of astronomical spring.
Instead they remained in profuse bloom to form part of the glitter and sunny sparkle of an early spring day in Washington. Against a deep blue sky that seemed without clouds, the masses of white petals seemed from below to suggest the gleam of snow on a mountaintop. Such readings seem almost chilly enough to arouse recollections of winter, and perhaps to suggest that January might still lurk nearby, concealed in the shadows, ready to taunt and mock the fanciers of spring.
On a day without clouds, it seemed everywhere At the Tidal Basin, it reflected from the cameras of visitors, the metal fittings of baby carriages and the bodies of nearby vehicles.
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