Spring Inspired Office Fever

I have never had such a hard time sitting still. It could have been the 6 hours I had spent planted in front on my computer screen listening to an overly-peppy instructor explain the most tedious and basic tasks of data entry as if we were 4th graders… or it could have been the way the sun came in through my 7th story window enticing me to go outside and enjoy its warmth. It didn’t help that I could make longing glances a lone tree, starting to reveal its lovely cherry blossom blooms amidst the otherwise bland mess of concrete within my view.

Spring carries new meaning in DC. On the coast the only major difference we experienced between winter and spring was very slightly greener grass (more from the increase in rain than the shift in weather) and the occasional azalea bush blossoming for a week before dropping it’s pink blooms onto the ground. The sandy ground only really grows evergreen pine trees and half-dead grass year around.

DC experiencing a drastic transformation where lonely and bare branches are quite suddenly flooded with pastel blossoms ad miraculously the color of the entire city is transformed.

I’m not exaggerating.

Along with the change in color, comes a change in mood. DCers emerge from their homes and cars and start roaming the streets, parks and monuments. BUT only temporarily, for alas… starting this weekend any locals will retreat public places as the city is bombarded with tourists of all types. They stay about a month I am heard, until the cherry blossoms disappear. That’s right… we get approximately 3.5 days to enjoy the onset of spring before we must return to our homes and bunker down until the end of the tourist invasion. Or something like that…
Doesn’t quite seem fair to me.

Regardless, it will be hard to remove the joy of spring as even the simplest task… commuting, grocery shopping, gazing out your office window… all will be enhanced by the multitude of cherry blossom trees so nicely disbursed throughout the city…. Even in the areas tourist don’t venture. We may only have a few, but we cherish every one.