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npr:
A Toast To Spring, With A ‘Cherry Blossom’ On Top!
The party started early this year. It’s the centennial celebration of the cherry blossoms, and everyone’s invited.
Many of the cherry trees now bursting with pink around the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C., have been there for a century. Talk about some inspiring longevity! What started as a simple gift of 3,000 trees from the city of Tokyo has blossomed into a five-week extravaganza that’s become something of a national celebration of spring.
So we decided to wander through the crowds to get a better look at these blossoming glories — and the million or so folks who flock to the nation’s capital every year to see them. -John Rose and Doriane Raiman
How to Make Garlic-Dill Pickles
Briny, garlicky, and crisp, a full-sour dill pickle satiates wicked salt cravings. After all these years, I finally realized that if I just made my own, I could have a never-ending stash.
To see the full post you can visit its page on The Feed. For the recipe without the photos, take a look at the Recipe File.
life:
Relatively early on in its remarkable, decades-long run as a weekly magazine, LIFE turned its eye toward always-enticing, ever-vivid New Orleans and that great city’s signature, defining event: Mardi Gras. In February, 1938, editors sent photographer William Vandivert (later a charter member of Magnum) to the Big Easy to chronicle the carnival — and to show LIFE’s readers how one American city, more Caribbean than Southern in so many ways, maintained a centuries-old tradition of refined debauchery and plain, unalloyed fun in the midst of the Great Depression.
But Bill Vandivert was in New Orleans for more than a few days and nights in the late winter of 1938, and he made hundreds of photographs — far more interesting photographs, it turns out, than those that ran in the magazine…Feast your eyes — Unpublished Photos: Mardi Gras, 1938
Missoni Nails | The Beauty Department
OK so I would never try to attempt this myself, but if I was gong to a nail salon this is what I would want them to do! You might be more game than me, and if you are I would love to see the end result. This was made not only with nail polish (and a very thin paint brush!) but also with grease pencils! Weird but awesome.
