Flowers - Sunday Stamps II

I'm beginning to run short of flower stamps to show.

However I could not resist showing this block of four:

USA 5 October 1966

Cherry blossoms and the Jefferson Memorial - appropriate today as the National Cherry Blossom Festival runs from 18 March - April 16th this year.

Can I claim to be a wise old sage for hitting the dates for it?

At least I can show some:

USA 7 April 2011

To pick other flowers today inspect those at the links on Sunday-Stamps- II-118.

Snappers - Sepia Saturday

Personally I hate having to stand with a group of photographers when I want to take a shot. This week's prompt reminded me of that.

Snapping cherry blossom in Washington

I worked with British Rail a lot in the 1990s and saw my fair share of trainspotters armed with cameras but none quite like this:

Belgian Railfans' photo shoot

They were out to photograph a special train - a farewell to SNCB/NMBS Class 51 diesel locomotive in 2003.

I have no idea what this lot were doing in Dublin:

Team of photographers in front of Jury's Hotel, Dublin

I wonder whether they had to wait all night for someone to turn up,

Mind you I'd be happy to join this pair no matter how long I had to wait.

Wildlife photographers enjoying numerous photographic opportunities

But if it's blossom I want then why go further than our front garden?

Apple blossom (white)

Cherry blossom

I rest my case.

To see what has been snapped elsewhere the place to go is Sepia-Saturday-169

Photos: 

• Railfans - By Peter Van den Bossche - CC BY-SA 2.0
• Dublin - By Andrais Burglega - CC BY-SA 3.0
• Wildlife - Photographers taking images; Public Domain website