D.O.P.-T. (day before yesterday)

Probably at the peak for the pompom-like pink cherry blossoms. Unfortunately the rows of little ornamental cherry trees at the library look sad this year; some are mostly bare branches but have struggled to put out one or two blossoms. Age and frost, I think, rather than under-watering due to the drought; the city still has watering jets going several times a week.

D.O.P.-T. (yesterday)

Got my taxes in the mail a day early. The main post office lost its lease, so the people sending half a vanload of parcels for their business now clog the line at the old downtown office, which used to be relatively quiet and friendly. Even the afternoon before tax day and with a lot of people here filing online, the line was already out the door. I read several pages of a dissertation in German on the Napolas as I inched along.

D.O.P.-T.

Most of the trees are now leafed out. Coming home in the early morning on Monday I could hear them sighing in the wind.