In case you missed the memo, it’s cherry blossom season in D.C. For locals, this means a number of things:
In my case, I’m guilty of #3. Cherry blossom season doesn’t get old in my book, and I have an annual ritual of visiting the Tidal Basin at sunrise during peak blossoming. This year was no exception and proved to be just as stunning as usual. (Photo cred: Yours Truly.)
While the Tidal Basin is less crowded at 6 a.m. on a weekday, it still has an impressively large following from the likes of runners, professional photographers, and even more so, nonprofessional photographers — iPhone users up at the crack-of-dawn snapping as many Instagrams as possible. This past weekend the D.C. Metro reported more than 600,000 trips on Saturday and over 400,000 trips on Sunday, making them the busiest days on the Metro since October 2010.
In case you were wondering, currently if you search the hashtag #cherryblossoms, Instagram populates 297, 637 posts…and I’d have to safely assume that the greater percentage of those posts originated right here in D.C.
The battle of the cherry blossom Instagrams doesn’t end until every last petal has fallen to the ground. But then again, what a great Instagram that would be — hashtag #untilnextyear #cherryblossoms #DC.
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