Today is the First Day of Spring in San Francisco. We get it a day earlier...
TweetThese cherry trees in Japantown are getting an early start on Spring. Spring comes to California tonight at 10:48 PM Pacific Daylight Time. Those of you on the East Coast will need to wait until...
View ArticleA Sure Sign That It’s February in the Western Addition: Mercedes Benzes...
TweetSee? The NoPA part of the Western Addition in late winter: Click to expand
View ArticleWhich Do You Prefer? David Yu’s Japantown Cherry Blossoms by Day or by Night?...
TweetHere’s J-Town by day… …and by night: (Sunrise this AM looked equally intense over the East Bay, let me tell you.) (Avert your eyes from the plum trees they’ve got at the Peace Plaza on Post –...
View ArticleHere’s the Reason Why the Cherry Blossoms You’re Seeing in the Late Winter of...
TweetSo, yes, January is a very early time to see cherry trees start to blossom but what you’re actually seeing are plum trees. Now both kinds of trees are pretty much the same thing, so no biggee, but...
View ArticleCherry Blossoms Blooming in January is NOT Due to Global Warming – Why? The...
Tweet(I’ll just say that if you ever earnestly Tweet a link to Chuckworthy, I’ll Unfollow you in a New York minute. That’s how I roll.) What’s that, when you were a tyke, cherry trees bloomed in April...
View ArticleApril Fools! Those “Cherry” Trees You Saw Blooming in January are Actually...
TweetHere’s your proof, here’s how things are looking in Buchanan Plaza in April 2014: Click to expand That would be a couple plums on the left and genuine cherry on the right. Why did people plant...
View ArticleThe Reason Why the Late Winter Cherry Blossoms You’re Seeing in San Francisco...
TweetWhat’s that, when you were a mere pup cherry trees blossomed in March or April and now you’re seeing blooms in late January and the start of February? Like here on Grove yesterday, and all over SF...
View ArticleAn Energetic Street Youth Makes It “Snow” in Western Addition by Climbing Up...
TweetThusly: And if you think this a cherry tree, I’ll ask you what color the leaves are, and you’ll say plum, and I’ll say BINGO! Even in J-town, the blossoms you see are from plum trees…
View ArticleCherry Blossom Viewing Picnics Continue on into April Near the Japanese Tea...
TweetFirst is was all like this, in early April 2015 across the street from Friend Gate of the Strybing Arboretum (which used to be popular until the $7 paywall went up): These people were...
View ArticleCherry Trees Bloomed in April When You Were Young, But Now You See Blooms All...
TweetHere’s your view, here’s what you can reliably see all over Frisco these days, typically starting in late January each and every year: The problem with comparing these trees to the cherry trees of...
View ArticleNow That It’s March, You Can Assume That the Blooming Cherry Trees You See...
TweetThe fake cherry trees of January are now a deep purple, ’cause they’re plum trees. That means that the cherry trees you see these days are real cherry. Accept no substitutes…
View ArticleThose “Cherry Trees” You See Blossoming About Frisco Now are Plum Trees, NTTAWWT
TweetSo blossoms in late January or February aren’t as much of a sign of global warming as some think. Anyway, plum trees are famous for early blooming, is what I’m saying.
View ArticleThe “Cherry Trees” Blooming in Mid-January Turn Out To Be, Once Again, Just...
This happens every year in Frisco. Ppl see plum blossoms and they look like cherry, so then they jump to the contusion that global warming has caused the cherry trees of their youth, which blossomed in...
View ArticleWhich are Genuine Cherry Trees in Frisco and Which are the Usurpers Taking...
It’s the middle of February, right? So, fake cherry… …and real: Yes, the global warming, but not that much, not yet anyway. (Oh, I’m afraid your “cherry tree” will be quite purple when your friends...
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