March seems to be the month for getting back in touch with old classmates for me!! In addition to finding this blog, I also found a long lost (34 years) classmate from my high school in Trichy. I also drove down to Washington DC on Friday, to spend the weekend with an old graduate school room mate, Belgin, from Turkey. Belgin and I were room mates when I was studying for my Master's degree in Fargo, ND (yes it is the place where all the major flooding problems are happening as we speak)
When we got to DC we found out that we were there just in time to see the cherry trees in full bloom. We had a relaxing weekend visiting the Smithsonian Museum Garden and walking around the Tidal Basin enjoying the beautiful cherry blossoms!
The National Cherry Blossom Festival is an annual two-week event that celebrates springtime in Washington, DC as well as the 1912 gift of the cherry blossom trees and the enduring friendship between the people of the United States and Japan.
11 comments:
from coaldogs of jharkhand to cherry blossoms of washington!!!
APOSCAFROVIMAL is sure going places. a real good one seetha. looking forward for many such nuggets....
Very interesting entry.
Thanks Seetha for Polishing our Memories! What better way than Cherry Blossom?
Love the cherry blossom pics... What an amazing sight!
Hi Seetha....
Lovely pics of the blossoms! And that includes those two radiant and blossoming faces in the snapshot as well :-}
Btw...is she your long lost Trichi friend or your room mate from Turkey? Please solve the suspense as none of us are Sherlocks here ;-}
Btw...I knew about Statue of Liberty as a gift from France but never knew of the cherry blossom gifts from Japan....
Nargis: That's Belgin... easy to guess!
Thanks guys and gals! Vimal is right. That is Belgin from Turkey. I found my long lost friend from Trichy through email, yet to meet in person!
Seetha,with your colour and good looks, you can easily pass of for a Turkish lady.
So Mohatarrama Tas, Mohatarrama Nargis and now Mohatarrama Seetha ( seems to be a mismatch in the salutation and name )
Nargis,
Cherry Blossom is actually a gift from India---I was referring to the shoe polish :)
Venu, Cherry Blossom is not an Indian brand... check it out!
The shoe polish market in India is worth Rs.100+ crore... and cherry Blossom leads the pack. However, Kiwi is the most popular brand in various other parts of the world!
And do you know who the actual manufacturer in India is? Well check this out: http://www.tideind.com/
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