Good morning Washington. For those on Capitol Hill and others, we hope you’ve been enjoying the Congressional recess this week. To everyone else, enjoy your Good Friday if you have it off. For the weather today, check Capital Weather. Rain will be moving in around lunchtime with highs near 50.

They’re Coming!: Tourists, a million strong, will be coming into the city for the National Cherry Blossom Festival. And according to the Post, the first of the visitors are starting to make their way into the capital as the Tidal Basin’s cherry blossoms enter the next stage of the budding process. The cherry blossom gurus have predicted that the blossoms will begin to come out in full force next week and will be at full peak the first week of April.

Tomorrow’s opening ceremony at the Mandarin Oriental hotel is sold out. For more information check out the official festival website or the Post’s online guide. As a side note, if you want to avoid the tourists downtown and see the cherry blossoms, we suggest you be a tourist yourself and drive to Bethesda’s Kenwoood neighborhood. Next weekend should see traffic backups on River Road with lines of cars trying to get in to see the neighborhood’s blooms.

D.C.’s Dems Face Many Problems: First, the Democratic committee for the District of Columbia got kicked out of its office. Then someone in New Jersey snatched up its domain name for the D.C. Dems’ website. They’re also lacking cash. The Examiner explores the problems facing the Democrats in an overwhelming Democratic city.

Feral Alley Cats Have Friends: The W.Times features Holly Marie, a woman who looks after feral cats in an unnamed alley in Ward 1 as part of the Ward 1 Alley Cat Coalition. One of the cats, Cleo is having equilibrium problems.

Briefly Noted: Boy shot in face on Columbia Heights sidewalk … With the mayor, mum’s the word …