It's Cherry Blossom Festival time in DC. Poet Pablo Neruda's poetry completely relays how I feel about my work. I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees. Translated in my simple words: I want to help others feel joy.
Every year the beauty of the season comes in the form of fluffy pinkness. This year the weather has rendered the bloom time to be a quick one. I called seven florists yesterday looking for twigs and was told that they are not coming this year because it snowed and snowed and snowed and snowed. The flowers pop and then fade very quickly; therefore, the branches can't get to the florist before the blossoms are goners. If you want to see these beauties, this is the weekend to head down to the Tidal Basin. You can also watch the explosion from your very own computer on BLOSSOM CAM. http://www.earthcam.com/usa/dc/cherryblossoms/
In the meantime, I need a prop because I have a TV appearance to talk about the secrets behind Spring celebrations. Floral factoid: the first batch of 2,000 cherry trees arrived from Japan in 1910 and were diseased. Coordination by a woman with whoop pow, Eliza Scidmore, the first female board member at Nat Geo, had them ship over another batch of 3,000 in 1912.
Here is a craft if you want the pink beauties in your life to last all Spring. I used a glue gun and must say that Martha Stewart has nothing on me with this DIY project.
1. Buy a tissue paper craft kit by Klutz and follow the directions.
2. Or, buy pink tissue paper. Make a cherry blossom flower template as shown. Trace on tissue paper and cut out. Glue two pieces together. Scrunch in middle. Glue gun to twig. Voila!
Final pic coming after I appear on Let's Talk Live.
Hope you feel like a cherry blossom busting in joy. If ya need a little inspiration, play Neil Diamond's Cherry Cherry really loud, and dance like you're Martha Stewart with a glue gun.
More secrets behind spring traditions from my appearance on Lets' Talk Live
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