For just a couple of weeks in spring, all the cherry blossom trees bloom and the streets and parks are filled with a floral fragrance. The blossom trees aren’t very noticeable the rest of the year, but in April they become filled with white and pink flowers.
Cherry blossoms (and apple blossoms) are one of my favorite flowers. Last year, when I first began to attend school in Edinburgh, the neighborhood the school was in had tons of these blossom trees and they were in bloom when I started going, and just a week later the petals began to fall to the ground. It made my walk to the bus stop a lot more enjoyable, even though the flowers were only there for such a short time. This year, I was really looking forward to seeing the trees bloom and then getting to watch the flowers and their petals progressively float off the trees. However, that plan was a bit disrupted due to the lockdown and school closure, but that still didn’t stop my determination to see the trees in the school’s neighborhood.
My family had recently purchased bikes so we could do something besides walking outside. My school is four miles away from where I live, which isn’t too far, but being new to biking on the roads made it harder than I thought. Roundabouts were scary to go on and there are a lot of them in Edinburgh. Intersections were also quite confusing and frightening since I had to figure out which lane to go into (I went in the wrong one many times). Fortunately, there weren’t many cars on the roads since you’re only allowed to leave your house for exercise or something essential. It took my 45 minutes to get to the neighborhood near the school, though it was supposed to only be a 30-minute ride. I eventually made it to school, the sight of it being closed and empty was a bit sad. I spent the remainder of the day biking around the neighborhood looking for cherry blossom trees, which I did find. The trees were not in their full bloom yet, so I made plans to come back a week later and look at them too.
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