I can agree with that sentiment.

At scale on water - I get it.

But the sub is flooded with it - normally I can follow the sub for 1st hand news; with the occasional pretty DC landmark in-between.

For a couple days it's been 75% or more cherry blossom posts. I'm not complaining - just marveling.

So bizarre to me. Now I was raised in DC, so maybe I'm just jaded, but man the cherry blossom get love like I didn't even know. Do people actually love the plant? Is it the history? Or is it just the temporal nature of a thing? Like calling "first" on a message board.

I know I sound like I don't care for the blossoms, I do - my mother use'ta love them, tried to see them every year, it made her happy. I'm glad everyone is enjoying them too. It'd make mom happy that you all are.

Immediately suburban Maryland just beyond the residential. Absolutely loaded with family owned authentic market. Silver Spring & CP, Rockville out 355 all the way to Gaithersburg. Lots of options.

To add some context, in the late 1980s stealing shoes and jackets was common place in DCPS. Like actually in school. Yes weapons were involved.

Row houses. Some of the ones in Georgetown are crazy narrow.

When I was in highschool -- DCPS -- they'd give us a roll of these every other week. Weekly we'd get pink student farecards for the train. This was in the 1990s.