“We have never seen anything like this, so beautiful, so pretty.”
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Seeing their first cherry blossom trees, Mahi Sarllan and Swathi Anugu were a lot like children discovering the Easter Bunny.
Sarllan picked up two handfuls of fallen flowers in Granville Square and tossed them into the air, Anugu captured her on camera as the pink petals floated like thick snowflakes, enhancing the moment with her camera’s boomerang app to make it look like her friend He caught them. again.
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“It’s just a fun thing that, you know, shows your happiness,” said Sarllan, as did Anugu, a language student in Vancouver.
“We had never seen anything like this, very beautiful, so pretty.”
All over the city, people, who didn’t mind the gray skies and strong gusts of wind on Thursday and Good Friday mornings, came out to enjoy the month-long flowers. Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival he started.
Stanley Park, David Lam Park and the Burrard SkyTrain station were among the places where flower fans headed with their devices turned up to capture the colors of Kwanzan, the type of cherry tree most common in parks and boulevards in Vancouver.
In total, the city has 43,000 Japanese cherry trees, almost half of Vancouver’s 90,000 flowering trees (the city has 160,000 trees in the streets throughout).
A search to find social networks. influential people and his annoying and self-centered antics at various flower-viewing spots were unsuccessful, fortunately so said Yvonne Shen, who is visiting from Toronto.
“Cherry blossoms are widespread in Vancouver,” he said, taking a break from photographing flowers in David Lam Park. “I live in a city where people flock to one centralized place, high park, because the flowers only last a weekend. Influencers appear in crowds, tear off branches, climb trees, damage them: they are a nuisance.
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“I like that here in Vancouver the cherry blossoms are everywhere, not just a bunch of trees in one place.”
Mary Bondar, now of Vancouver, moved from Manitoba to Victoria 30 years ago and recalled being amazed by the cherry trees her first spring in the capital.
“It was April and the streets seemed to be bathed in snow, but the ground was covered in flowers,” he said while taking photos looking down West 22nd Avenue, noting that it was -3°C that morning in his home province.
“On the prairies, sometimes the leaves don’t even come out until June,” Bondar said. “Cherry blossoms are so beautiful that you don’t need to use filters.”
At the Burrard SkyTrain station, a woman received a mild reprimand from a passing commuter because while she was standing in an ankle-deep puddle to frame a photo, her four-year-old son was shaking the branch of a cherry tree in hopes of making it bloom. would float down.
The boy’s efforts were fruitless, but the wind had scattered petals that lay like confetti in a 30-meter-long pond that served as a mirror on the sidewalk beneath the flowering branches.
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“It’s worth getting your feet wet for a shot like this,” he said.
Back at David Lam, Zach Neeley was taking photos of his wife, Tiffany, under a dome of pink and white flowers.
Where the couple is from, the yellow flowers of the prickly pear or the pink-red flowers of the claret cup cactus are common; cherry blossoms, no.
“We’re from Phoenix, we don’t have anything like this, oh no,” Tiffany said.
When asked what he will write in the caption when he posts his photos on his Instagram account, he said he would not say anything.
“The photos speak for themselves.”
“We had heard about cherry blossoms,” Zach added. “But this 100 percent has exceeded our expectations.”
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