Sure, the point of doing this My D.C. thing is to show you what the tourists miss when they come to our city. But you have to understand that some of the perks of living in a well-trod city are just the things that the tourists also love.

Case in point? The cherry blossoms:

The trees line the banks of the Potomac River and the Tidal Basin. This tree sits between the two, near the entrance to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial.

And these line the route leaving it:

It wouldn’t be a D.C. shot if there weren’t construction cranes somewhere in the shot:

I’m so glad I came in the evening and got to see the sun setting over the Tidal Basin.

And a shot for the knitters:

The rest of the shots I uploaded from last Saturday can be seen here.