Observations from Northern VA/DC

[nitpicker]

Went to the credit union, more tellers than customers, individual lanes for each teller versus a common line.

Went to the post office, skipped the common line for counter service ((NON- SD compliant)) to use the credit card to get stamps.

Crossed into DC, skipped the Tidal Basin, went around Hains Point where there were parking spots available, viewed peak cherry blossoms from my car, went home in plenty of time for lunch.

[Tanuki]

1. I'm glad you got to see the cherry blossoms!

Loveliest of Trees

A. E. Housman - 1859-1936

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.

Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.

And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.



This poem is in the public domain.