It was a great run for the cherry blossoms, but the tail end of their peak bloom and the weekend rains saw many of their distinctive pink and white petals fall to the ground. more ›

The Saturday Morning Post featuring cherry blossoms, WMATA and the National Cathedral. more ›

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and his wife, Callista, toured the cherry blossoms on Sunday. We think he enjoyed himself. Maybe. more ›

No, picking cherry blossoms off of trees or hanging off of the branches is not allowed. Pass the word forward, if only for the sake of the cherry blossoms. more ›

The weekend couldn't have been better for the city's roving photographers—the temperatures were warm, the skies blue and the cherry blossoms in bloom. more ›

The Sunday Morning Post featuring a train collision, foot pursuits, the Howard Theatre and a Catholic culture clash. more ›

The centennial of the planting of Japanese cherry trees on the Tidal Basin will be marked with a celebration of the trees' origin, as well as remembrances of the earthquake and tsunami last year that ravaged Japan. more ›

When the National Park Service announced the peak bloom period for the city's famed cherry blossoms two weeks ago, it probably didn't expect that we'd have a week's worth of May-like temperatures. But that's exactly what we're getting, and as such, the peak bloom has been moved up. more ›

The National Park Service announced today that the District's famed cherry blossoms will reach peak bloom between March 24-31, corresponding almost perfectly with the centennial edition of the National Cherry Blossom Festival. more ›

Your guide to the fun stuff going on around the region this weekend, including a rockstar photographer, comedian Tim Meadows, the best of the National Cherry Blossom Festival (the parade, street culture festival, and kite festival), beer and art scavenger hunts, Nerd Nite, tons of movies, and so much more. more ›

Morning Washington. Looks like we'll slowly thaw out of this unseasonably cold and rainy weather we've been having, but not without some showers today. If you woke up early enough, you caught a glimpse of the sun, but I'm afraid it won't be out much longer today. Tomorrow though, promises ideal cherry blossom viewing weather: partially sunny, reaching 60. more ›

D.C.'s famed cherry blossoms peaked even earlier than expected on Wednesday, even after the dates for peak bloom were moved up twice already this year. The National Park Service now says peak bloom technically already came and went -- it lasted all of one day, which turned out to be March 31. more ›

Peak blooming dates for Washington's famed cherry blossoms have been revised a second time. The National Park Service now says there will be just two days of peak bloom: April 1-2. The estimated dates had originally spanned from April 3-8, and were later moved up to April 1-4. more ›

When the National Cherry Blossom Festival starts Saturday, the tourists who come to see the trees will leave behind an estimated $126 million in the D.C. metro region over the course of the event, according to a George Mason University study released Thursday. more ›

The National Park Service has revised its predicted peak blooming period for Washington's famous cherry blossoms, to April 1-4 from April 3-8. The change was made, as the Post explains, after this weekend's gorgeous warm weather sped up the blooming process. The overall blooming period was also revised just a bit, to March 28-April 9, from March 31-April 11. more ›

The D.C. Circulator will start back up running its loop around the National Mall for the season on March 27, the Examiner reports. more ›

The National Park Service's chief cherry blossom prognosticator, horticulturalist Rob DeFeo, has at last delivered the goods: he announced this morning that the estimated peak bloom period for Washington's famous cherry trees will run from April 3-8, while the overall bloom period will last from March 31 to April 11. more ›

WTOP reports that a number of cherry trees around the Tidal Basin were damaged by heavy snowfall this month.

"A number of branches have been split, and there have been a couple of trees that have had the canopies taken off," National Park Service spokesman Bill Line tells WTOP after he toured the area. more ›

On the peak Saturday of the Cherry Blossom Festival -- one of the historically busier days on the calendar for our venerable Metro -- it's obviously going to be quite crowded on trains and in platforms. But as the twilight of this morning's activities arrives, and the city prepares for this evening's sports-related subway throngs by engaging in a mass pillow fight, it's encouraging that the Metro website is currently reporting no official disruptions in rail service. With a tip of the cap to reader InMasonicShadows, Unsuck DC Metro put together a twittercap of this morning's biggest problem: incredibly long lines to enter suburban Metro stations. All things considered, if that's the biggest issue with Metro today, then there's not too much to complain about. (Now let's collectively find some wood, and get knockin'.) more ›

And it's a good photo! But whassa matter with Sanjay Suchak that he can't upload some photos of some cherry blossoms like everybody else?
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This weekend sure is a busy one. What with the National Cherry Blossom Festival Parade is on Saturday morning, the Credit Union Cherry Blossom 10-Mile Run and 5K Run-Walk on Sunday morning, plus Wizards, DC United and Nationals games all happening on Saturday night, off-peak hours this weekend on Metro are likely to resemble rush hour. In order to keep up, Metro has no weekend track work scheduled, and they've instituted a number of service changes. more ›

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The National Cherry Blossom Festival formally kicks off tomorrow, with all that the first weekend of the celebration entails. more ›

This morning the National Park Service announced it has revised the peak bloom dates for D.C.'s famed cherry blossoms, to April 1-4. It's a shorter period than previously predicted, as well as being earlier. They've also added on an overall "Blooming Period," from March 28-April 11, which conveniently overlaps nearly perfectly with the dates of the National Cherry Blossom Festival (March 28-April 12). more ›

It's undeniably still winter outside, but today we're provided with a tangible reminder that spring is so close we can almost taste it. The National Cherry Blossom Festival had their annual press conference this morning at the Newseum, where they announced the peak bloom dates for D.C.'s famous pink blossoms: April 3 through 9. That's the time period when National Park Service horticulturists believe the cherry blossoms will be at their fullest and most beautiful. more ›

The Cherry Blossom parade will modify many downtown Metrobus routes this weekend. The parade starts this Saturday at 10 a.m. and marches on Constitution Avenue between 7th and 17th streets, and will force the 5A, 13, 32, 34, 35, 36, 52, 54, 66, 70, 80, P6, S2, S4 and V8 to alter their routes until about 1 p.m. If you plan on taking any of these buses tomorrow, you should expect delays. more ›