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Related: About this forumIn Springtime a dog's fancy turns to . . . . . cherry blossoms?
The cherry blossoms around the Tidal Basin in DC are early this year. They're supposed to peak on Tuesday, but they were spectacular today, even as it was cloudy and a few days early. Sparkly and I headed there this morning.
We were quite surprised at the number of dogs we saw. Lots of dogs, actually. So we started informally identifying breeds. We were amazed. The greatest number of one breed we saw were Shih-Tzus! Then Border Collies (but all mutts that looked to be mostly BC). Then GSDs, and then various Labs, Chessies, Goldens, etc. One really gorgeous Pembroke Welsh Corgi.
The dogs were having as much a good time as the people did!
get the red out
(13,468 posts)I was playing chuck-it with my dog (mutt that looks mostly BC, LOL) and she went for a ball under a blooming bush and came out with pollen all over her head! Hilarious. Today I took her out to the green farmland around the local horse race track to play with her best doggie friend, a GSD belonging to a good friend of ours, and they ended up in the pond. My car now smells like swamp water and she had to put up with a bath when we got home. We are quite a bit ahead on spring here in central Kentucky.
There were dogs playing everywhere though, they were all so happy. We ran into a collie mix and a beagle mix, both were 10, happy as could be even when they played a bit with our going on 2 years old, crazy pair.
Layla is sacked out with my husband now. A tired dog is a happy dog!
elleng
(131,202 posts)Hope to get there this week.
TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)I'm surprised they're already budding this early though. The tree in my backyard is a cherry blossom (which needs a serious haircut this year or I'll have no sun at all in my yard). Where I live they're everywhere. It's rather a shame that they bloom out for such a short time before all the petals fall off though.
Boo loved it when the petals fell. They all seem to come off at once so it's like pink blizzard for a couple of days. The whole yard gets a thick blanket of them. They're slippery as hell when they get wet though, so as pretty as the pink blanket is, if it rains or drizzles or we even get a lot of dew they have to be raked up.
I think Yoshi will love them. He generally loves things that fly or blow around on the ground.