The splendor of springtime in Washington is world-renowned, owing largely to the Japanese flowering cherry trees that have encircled the Tidal Basin for over a century. Yet the cherry blossoms are a single aspect of the city’s spectacular flowering spring, and spring is only one of the city’s vibrant seasons.
Smithsonian Associates tour guide, naturalist, and nature-book author Melanie Choukas-Bradley leads a virtual journey of seasonal transformation in and around the nation’s capital. Through vivid and beautiful photos captured across all four seasons, visit the Tidal Basin and Hains Point, the Capitol and U.S. Botanic Garden, Rock Creek Park, the Great Falls of the Potomac, Mount Vernon, the National Arboretum, and many other notable landscapes. Choukas-Bradley covers seasonal highlights of migrating and resident birds and amphibians and shares the thoughts of nature lovers who have sojourned in the nation’s capital over the years, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Frederick Douglass, and Rachel Carson.
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