March 29 – April 4, 2009
There are tons of flowering trees near both my home and office, which are beautiful right now. I know it won’t last too much longer, and it’s been killing me that I haven’t really have any opportunities to go snap some photos.
So I was thrilled when I was able to go on a good long walk yesterday. Normally I run on Saturdays, but I had a 10-mile race this morning (No, I did not do the Cherry Blossom run in DC today, but my running club’s version, the Cherry Pit!)
Some of my friends were meeting after their run yesterday to surprise one of the women with a little birthday celebration for her 40th that’s coming up this week. They were meeting in town, about two miles from my house. The sun was shining, and I decided to walk. It was a little cool and breezy, but I just bundled up and went on my way!
The headwaters of Spa Creek form a little fork around my neighborhood, with two small footbridges to cross it. Ultimately, this creek will go into town, and just around the corner it’s deep enough that houses can have private docks.
There’s been a lot of rain lately. These ducks took advantage of a new swimming hole in what usually is a field.
And now, here’s what I was really out there for. The flowers.
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Those are some serious flowers. Beautiful!
Beautiful! I love the cherry blossoms 🙂 I was up in DC last weekend and just missed the blooms. They were JUST starting to come out.
I love the flowering trees. I can’t wait till our trees flower around here.
Spring is the absolute best!
gorgeous blossoms… great captures!
really lovely photos this week
That is an impressive creek! Our creeks are barely worthy of the name at the moment… 🙂
Great shots. Love the blossoms and spa creek.
Those are some gorgeous shots! We don’t have cherry blossoms down here in Florida, but next year, I’ll be living in Pennsylvania, and I think there might be some there!
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the flower pics are GORGEOUS!! I went into DC on Sunday and took soooo many pics, and Loved it.
also – thats so fun that you’ll be at Zooma too!!! We’ll have to meet up. I’m running it with my Sister – she’s never done a race before so it’ll be fun. 😉