{"id":182,"date":"2006-04-20T23:26:20","date_gmt":"2006-04-20T14:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2006-04-20\/182"},"modified":"2007-04-10T00:25:12","modified_gmt":"2007-04-09T15:25:12","slug":"cherry-blossom-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2006-04-20\/182","title":{"rendered":"Cherry Blossom Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n

\nWhen a cherry tree starts to give up its petals, it does so in great bursts\nand flurries. A puff of<\/span> wind will come along, and every darn petal will\nspring into the air in a veritable<\/span> supernova of off-white pink that becomes\na localized<\/span> blizzard as it swirls and dissipates in all directions. Gravity\neventually wins, and the ground becomes a thick<\/span> bed of blossoms sometimes\nseveral inches thick.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nIt's beautiful and mesmerizing, but the most amazing thing about it is that\nafter every petal has been lost to that breeze, the tree remains as heavily\nladen as ever. It's as if<\/span> the blossoms for the blizzard of petals had\nmaterialized out of nowhere, separate and unrelated to those affixed to the\ntree for your longer-term viewing pleasure.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nIt certainly defies all logic, but that's how it is.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nLike watching hair grow, you never see a change<\/span> in a tree's<\/span> petals over the\nshort term, but in the longer term the tree inexplicably, inexorably,\ninevitability turns from white to green. This year, as I've mentioned before<\/a>,\neach tree seems to be going at its own pace, but all have at least started\nthe transformation now.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nAnyway, after our recent trip to the park<\/a>, Anthony and I\nwere<\/span> passing by the area were I took<\/span> that night shot<\/a> I'd posted\nrecently when we were greeted with one of the whirlwinds of blossoms. I had my<\/span> camera with me, but I wasn't<\/span> fast\/good enough to get a picture<\/span> that did\nit justice.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nHere's one that I did get, which shows just a few<\/span> petals in flight, and a\ndecidedly<\/span> getting-greener tree:\n\n<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>(click to\nexpand)<\/font><\/div>\n\n

\n\nIt's interesting to note that the white path in the background is black\nasphalt, made white by a thin<\/span> layer of petals (we've had a lot<\/span> of rain\nrecently, putting a damper,<\/span> literally, on the petal accumulation). It's taken<\/span> from just about exactly the same spot as the aforementioned night shot<\/a>, but looking\nthe opposite direction. You can see<\/span> much less an accumulation in the night\nshot, which was taken not long after rain had cleared everything away, a\ngood<\/span> 40 hours prior to this one.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When a cherry tree starts to give up its petals, it does so in great bursts and flurries. A puff of wind will come along, and every darn petal will spring into the air in a veritable supernova of off-white pink that becomes a localized blizzard as it swirls and dissipates in all directions. Gravity eventually wins, and the ground becomes a thick bed of blossoms sometimes several inches thick. <\/p>

It's beautiful and mesmerizing, but the most amazing thing about it is that after every petal has been lost to that breeze, the tree remains as heavily laden [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}