Hmmmm. Just checked and it seems I’ve been out of a couple for a while…. NOT!

The cherry trees bloom here so much that you’d think we’d plant ones that didn’t taste like crud for our public places. Those sour puppies are great deer food but lousy people food! Unfortunately, the entire region had a very nasty and untimely frost that all but wiped out all the cherry blossoms so there were no cherry blossoms OR cherries in most places this year. Between that and the incredible loss of habitat because of the ongoing drought and fires, the deer and struggling this year. In the foothills, there are still too many and the hunting season will thin their numbers but they won’t be feasting on cherries as they usually do until next year.

So, you’ll get all the cherry blossom shots I can muster as soon as there’s something to shoot and occasionally, the trees get really mixed up when the weather changes badly: there may be some trees that bloom at the ‘wrong’ time. But for you, and only you, I will suffer the elements to get your favourite blooms. LOL!

– Lenny La Rue, IPA

Yeah, Sacramento got shorted this year but only artists put chairs in trees to make more ‘cherry trees’. :-D (I’m assuming that they aren’t artists…)

– Lenny La Rue, IPA