Cherry Blossoms

We made a few trips down to see the cherry blossom trees this year -- they bloomed later than usual, and later than expected this season.  We biked down one night after work last week during the peak bloom....sadly I didn't get any pictures of that.

I did get some during our second trip down over the weekend.  We took the dog who loved people watching in the sunshine:

 

 

I also made some cherry blossom cookies based on a design and tutorial from this great book by Bridget Edwards of Bake at 350: