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That time of year again

All through this past cold, dark winter, I've been looking forward to spring, when I can get home before dark to walk around with my camera and take pictures of pretty things. But fate is cruel.

I've been hobbling around for the last three weeks. With a cane. Ugh. Either the lupus or the lupus medicine did something to my foot. My cane and I will be spending a lot of quality time together for the foreseeable future.

It being cherry blossom season, we wanted to do a little o-hanami, but hiking around the Mall this weekend was out of the question thanks to my foot. A friend at work suggested the National Arboretum, which has cherry trees and parking, and even has cherry trees near the parking. A great plan, except that all the Cherry Blossom Festival traffic was between us and the Arboretum. Blooming brake lights, as far as the eye can see.

Yeah. And some genius had set light up highway signs along this road to display really helpful suggestions like "Take Metro." Which, by the time we're here, it's a little late for that.

A few minutes after I shot this, we got on the GW Memorial Parkway South and headed back to Del Ray.

Del Ray has cherry trees too.

Hanami will be close to home this year.