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Vancouver’s cherry blossoms season is now passed its peak and that means petal are falling off the city’s more than 36,000 cherry trees. Bu the scenario is no less stunning, as petals now lay on the side walks. Bob Nixon with that story.


April in Vancouver where the streets are paved in pink. A joyest time for Cecelia Tiong, she’s been travelling through the city for weeks, recording the city’s gorgeous eruptions from city’s 35,000 cherry trees.

“This looks so romantic, so give you different, feeling. I think that take a feeling here.”

The bloom has been breezed and petal’s drift to the breeze transforming the earth below. Julie Smith loves this time.

“They were dripping, like they were pouring over one to another. Like our tree a pink, we look out all our windows and now we can see is pink, green and blue, and it’s like spring is here finally this year and bare feet. That’s right, we need bare feet. Don’t go too close.”

The side walks like bare, some where beneath are corolla carpet. Well sure they look great on the tree but some people complain when cherry blossom fall down. They get messy and slippery and they become a pain that clean it up, well that depends on your point of view. Mit, Oat and Tu, two Julia Smiths’ kids, look what they can do with the petals.

“My kids actually have been jumping up and dancing when it’s snowing, its snowing.”

Yep, if it is something you see all right, something to playing. For Tiong something to record and add to her Vancouver album.

“And the spring you can see the cherry blossom. And the summer you can see the yard grows all kinds of fruit and vegetables, and autumn you can see the maple leaves go down, and winter can go snowing, go skating.”

Unfortunately, the snow is at least half of year’s away.