Under the Cherry Blossom Trees

Spring has sprung. And for once, I'm not hating it.

Sure, there's a lot to hate about spring (from my point of way, anyway). Bugs, humidity, trampy girls thinking that a temperature of above sixty degrees means they should wear ridiculously little clothing. This year, however, something's different. Maybe it's my growing appreciation for life, maybe it's my newfound optimism, I don't know. But this year, spring isn't so bad.

Yesterday my friend Alicia and I had a study picnic under the cherry blossom trees on our school grounds. It was so gorgeous it felt like I had been thrown out of Pennsylvania and into a movie set in some warm Southern state with plentiful vegetation. LD may not be the most fantastic high school, but it really is pretty. The trees bloom in mid-April each year, and I consistently look forward to watching them. It's like one moment the trees are brown and dead, and the next moment tiny, soft pink blossoms appear.

Love, love, love

SO BEAUTIFUL.

Anyways, the picnic turned out quite wonderfully. Start with the cherry blossom trees and throw in a tie dye blanket, baguette, fancy sliced cheese, ensalada de frutas, yummy cookies, and a lovely cupcake bag to hold it all, and you've got yourself a fantastic picnic. Which, by the way, was on my senior to-do list. Mental check! Seriously though, I love picnics. They're so yummy and quaint and appealing.

Our perfect picnic ingredients.

Almost promptly upon arrival at our little self-made cherry blossom haven just outside the 300 wing doors, we decided that we needed a photo shoot right that second (partly because unfortunately, as gorgeous as the cherry blossom trees are, the beautiful pink stage doesn't last long. But I digress). Because we had some studying to get to, the photo shoot didn't last long, but it was enough to remind me how much I miss photography. It was my favorite class (and hobby) last year, and I feel like I've lost touch with it. I miss the precision of adjusting the focus to be just right, the careful pondering of a beautiful scene in nature or a cool object, the satisfying "click" of the shutter when I've finally found the perfect angle. *Note to self: add "many photo adventures" to summer to do list.

Incorporating the cherry blossoms into inanimate objects? Yes.

And for the record, even with all the delicious food and random picture taking we managed to get some studying done for the AP Spanish test (insert horror movie-style scream here). 20 pages of vocab is a lot, but we at least made a dent. Go productivity!

Oh, hello there nature. Thanks for joining us.