suns along the Mohawk

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A year ago this week, we were celebrating the arrival and revival of gorgeously robust cherry blossoms on Washington Avenue and throughout the Schenectady Stocakade. 2023 gave us a dreadful crop failure, and we compared it to the great improvement in 2024 in “cherry blossom revival” (April 15, 2024). 

For example, here’s the scene at 15 Washington Ave. at the cherry blossom peak of 2023 [L] and 2024 [R]:

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To see why we’re hoping for an encore of the 2024 blossom array, see all the images at “cherry blossoms are cheering us up again” (April 16, 2024). Things are still rather drab outside my front window on Washington Avenue, and we won’t be having much sunshine until this Sunday (April 20), but I’ve been practicing optimism this year.

Blossoms looked smashing last year at Congregation Gates of Heaven also, and at our Central Park Rose Garden, as was memorialized in our posting “weeping for joy in 2024“.

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Let’s hope the blossoms of 2025 send us out strolling and schmoozing again this year.