Photo by qbubbles.

The weather might have you thinking that spring will never arrive, even though winter technically doesn’t even start until tomorrow. (Yeah, it’s a downer, man.) But better days will come, and this news will certainly help you visualize them: organizers for the 2010 National Cherry Blossom Festival announced that the festival will run from March 27 through April 11 next year. Our mental image of thousands of bursting cherry blossoms is impossible to cover with twenty inches of precipitation — take that, snow gods!