YAKIMA — For many years, tourists have traveled to experience and photograph blossoming cherry trees in Japan, Seattle, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere. Yakima Valley orchards and agritourism ...

And in 1982, he had given us 30,000 trees to give away.” According to the International Cherry Blossom Festival’s website, Macon has more than 350,000 cherry blossom trees.

Her latest project with FFP is an appreciation of our local flowering trees—something we have yet to learn in this cherry blossom-deluded nation—but also part art therapy in the middle of a ...