2024

It might have just been seasonal allergies, but I’ve been absolutely itching to wear the strawberry dress I made out into the world! And there’s nowhere more profusely pollinated right now than the Cherry Blossom festival in Washington, DC.🌸 I’d never actually been to see these blooms before, but the petals falling like snow onto the flooded sidewalks of the Tidal Basin as we scurried around the crowds and mud took my breath away. Or that might have been because I decided to climb a tree. Who knows!

Thanking my lucky blossoms for my mom and brother for putting up with my photo requests and helping me not fall out of trees and providing bandaids when my sandal starting giving me a blister.

Photos by Betsy & Andrew Skinner.