Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning.
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 1: tip is that spring blooms are worth the bother. Sometimes
Speaker 1: experiencing beautiful or memorable things can take a lot of effort,
Speaker 1: but that's okay. Beautiful things are worth spending energy for,
Speaker 1: particularly if they are fleeting. So I have become something
Speaker 1: of a floral tourist of late I went to Washington,
Speaker 1: d C two tuesdays in a row in late March
Speaker 1: in order to see the cherry blossoms at peak bloom.
Speaker 1: I took the train from Philadelphia to d C, took
Speaker 1: a cab to the Title Basin, and then walked around,
Speaker 1: just gawking at the white and pink snowballs clinging to
Speaker 1: the trees. Millions of petals create a canopy of other
Speaker 1: worldly beauty. It's just the most amazing sight, and I'm
Speaker 1: glad to have seen it. I also made sure to
Speaker 1: get on the pre sale list to buy tickets for
Speaker 1: Holland Ridge Farms in New Jersey. Once or twice every April,
Speaker 1: I drive an hour to see the acres of tulips.
Speaker 1: I pick some to take home and document many others
Speaker 1: with the portrait mode on my phone. Now it has
Speaker 1: not been easy to travel an hour or two in
Speaker 1: the middle of everything else to see spring blooms. And
Speaker 1: perhaps it sounds a bit silly too, really taking days
Speaker 1: just to go see beautiful things. But spring blooms are fleeting.
Speaker 1: The cherries were gorgeous for about ten days, and then
Speaker 1: those millions of petals turned to cherry snow, the tulips
Speaker 1: whitherto Nature blooms on her own clock, and if you
Speaker 1: want to see it, you have to adjust your schedule
Speaker 1: to hers. I think that's worth doing. In general, seeing
Speaker 1: beautiful things and making memories is worth the bother. Travel,
Speaker 1: especially with kids, can be a huge hassle, but those
Speaker 1: trips often become our most intense memories. It is more
Speaker 1: comfortable to just sit around the house. That's less of
Speaker 1: a bother. But so what Having traveled two hours by
Speaker 1: train to DC to see those blossoms, I don't now
Speaker 1: find myself saying, Wow, what a mistake that was to
Speaker 1: spend ninety minutes surrounded by gorgeous blooms. I wish I
Speaker 1: didn't have those photos to look back on now. I
Speaker 1: wish I'd spent that day at my desk and puttering
Speaker 1: around the house. I don't say that because I know
Speaker 1: there is a time for that when the blooms aren't
Speaker 1: at their peak. Of course, everything in life is a balance.
Speaker 1: We can't spend our entire lives traveling, and if I
Speaker 1: spent every day seeking out spring blossoms, I would never
Speaker 1: do anything else. But the occasional adventure can definitely fit
Speaker 1: into life, even if we are busy, and even if
Speaker 1: we are tired. Spring blooms are worth the bother, and
Speaker 1: so are many other things in this beautiful world. In
Speaker 1: the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's
Speaker 1: to making the most of our time. Hey, everybody, I'd
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