Aru Nair
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How's it going?
I'm originally from Wyoming, and I moved to D.C.
My favorite part has definitely been the public transit.
It's very magical to me.
It's a joy to ride.
But there is one particular event that happens every spring that's a huge deal.
Emily, have you heard of the Cherry Blossom Festival?
So this is Matthew Morrison.
He's an arborist and urban forester with the National Park Service.
And he told me every single year, locals and tourists flood the National Mall for the annual Cherry Blossom Festival to view these millions of flowers.
But as you know, Emily, these flowers are really fragile and they're only around for a couple of weeks.
And in some cases, it's been as short as five days.
So the festival is ideally planned for when all these trees are in peak bloom.
And I wanted to know, what is peak bloom really?
So I asked Mike Glitters to define it for me.
He's the chief of communications for the National Mall and Memorial Parks.