Last week, the streets of downtown DC perked up with splashes of springtime color. Landscape crews planted flowers in the tree boxes that line the sidewalks. I broke into a smile when I saw the workers unloading the flats of pansies below my office window. Soon, there were rows of purple and yellow planted around the tree there. Another sure sign of spring!
I love these small flower gardens that appear every spring. Washington is a beautiful city in so many ways. The scale of the buildings is more human that the towers of New York. The national mall and Rock Creek Park provide open green areas that allow an escape from concrete and brick. And there are flowers and trees woven into the landscape. The tree boxes in the Penn Quarter area where I work provide a little backyard-style treat for pedestrians (and those people looking out their office windows!).
So here's to DC and here's to spring. You don't have to go see the cherry blossoms at the tidal basin to celebrate the season -- spring is everywhere you look.
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