Yeah, there's just something about annual rituals that I appreciate more as I've grown older. I get why people don't want to go there during all of this, period, but I see it as an opportunity for a beautiful 9 mile run where I'm giving myself permission to stop, enjoy, and take pictures instead of focusing on pushing through and trying to hit a PR.

They're pretty nice. I like biking down that way before work when they're blooming. The trick is to go by bike, and to focus on East Potomac Park (Hains Point) where fewer people are.

Yeah you’re right let’s just stick with the status quo instead of what could be an easy fix for residents who have been absolutely terrorized over the last decade.

I've stayed at that hotel dozens of times 😱

I also ignore this every year but saw them this year… it’s pretty cool in person not gonna lie

I go down every year that I can. They're absolutely beautiful, and to me, it's a ritual marking the start of spring much like Memorial Day marks the start of summer and Labor Day marks the start of fall. The experience is great on bike once you get past the cars. I did a bunch of laps around Hains Point last night. I chuckled passing the same cars with every lap I did around the park though (that had moved maybe 30 feet for every 3 mile lap I completed on bike).

absolutely

Gross

I’ve been here for 33 years and I’ve never gone down to see those trees. I don’t get the obsession.

Since 2021

TBF, the traffic just means you get to see the blossoms for an extra long time! 👍

Second Marriott ever after the Twin Bridges Marriott, which was torn down in the 90s and is now Long Bridge Park. Funnily enough, Arlington County also approved a mixed-use office and hotel development for that site that never got built. Maybe the Key Bridge Marriott site is destined to become more parkland there as well.

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They do on the weekends.

Is “carbrains” a common term used on that sub?

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🤷‍♂️ How’s about we ignore them? If there are no press or protesters, there will be five attendees max.

I don't know why they don't ban cars there during peak cherry blossom season. So stupid.

just ignore, don't fuel their persecution fantasy

Obvious rage bait

They just want a bunch of people to show up protesting them and trying to get it cancelled so they can say “this is no different from what we want to do to trans people”

This looks nothing like cherry blossoms in real life.

Good cameras, like OP has, can absolutely do cherry blossoms justice with minimal edits.

Oh not at all. But I do know enough to know that easy solutions from people not familiar with the work probably aren't that feasible.

I'd say the point of editing is to evoke the feeling of being there, because cameras never do it justice. this photo has that feeling

Hilarious.

Where do you check and when does it get updated