Sunlit Cherry Blossoms

The Kwanzan cherry trees that line the sidewalk alongside Granny White Pike, south of Lipscomb's Avalon Hall, were in full sunlight as I went walking their way this afternoon, unlike on February 12, when I photographed them beneath heavily overcast skies. Left, the view I got looking southward.

"To look at things in bloom ..." *

On February 12, 2013, the Kwanzan cherry trees that line the sidewalk between Granny White Pike and the Lipscomb University campus just south of Avalon Hall are brilliant with bloom. I was so astonished to find them out ahead of even the forsythia this year.

A.E. Housman, "Loveliest of trees, the cherry ..."