Recently the streets and sidewalks, plus vehicles, took on a pink tint ...

Early week before last, the winds blew and the blossoms flew.



That's some kind of coverage on that back window, isn't it? Can anyone say "Cherry Blossom Parade" instead of Rose Parade?



You can see that the blossoms covered the sidewalk beneath the tree, too. This was going on all over Portland. Never seen anything like it, unless you count the yellow skies and everything-else-in-existence when the pine pollen lets loose down home!



Delicate pink petals mix well with bright green grass. If you feel disoriented looking at this, I do, too! I took it looking straight down, but it still seems outta whack to me!



Friday when I got off the bus after work, gusty winds had strewn the Goodwill parking lot with enough petals that auto tires made tracks, as if we'd had a light pink snow! They stuck because we'd had a bit of rain. Imagine that.



I managed to catch a few petals as they fell, thanks to the sport setting on my camera.



These petals came to rest in a depression made where the sidewalk came up against the slightly mounded earth of a flower bed beside the Goodwill parking lot.



If you click, you'll see more petals on the wind, blown from the bounteous boughs of blossoms.



Wonderfully, memorably beautiful.