A woman with Kimono looks at cherry trees in bloom in Shinjuku Gyoen in Tokyo, Japan on Thursday, April 4, 2024. (Photo by Noriko Hayashi for The Washington Post)

Sunrise at Rockford Common in the New Forest, UK where the heather is in bloom on July 28, 2024. (Photo by Steve Hogan/Picture Exclusive)

Hungarians witness the fallen statue of communist leader Josef Stalin in front of the National Theater in Budapest on October 24, 1956. Demonstrators revolting against communist rule in Hungary pulled the statue to the ground at Dozsa Gyorgy on Oct. 23 and hauled it by tractor to Blaha Lujza where it was later smashed to pieces by the people. (Photo by Arpad Hazafi/AP Photo)

Visitors pose for pictures under blooming cherry blossoms at a botanical garden in Nanjing, capital of China’s eastern Jiangsu province on March 15, 2019. (Photo by Reuters/China Stringer Network)

Geese are walking under pear trees in full bloom in Shiliangliu village, West Coast New District, in Qingdao, China, on April 8, 2024. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

People take photos of blooming cherry blossoms in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (Photo by Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

A man holding a pet dog walks past blooming cherry blossoms along the Meguro river in Tokyo, Japan, March 27, 2022. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

Cherry blossoms are in bloom along the Tidal Basin in Washington,DC on March 24, 2016. (Photo by Marc-Antoine Baudoux/AFP Photo)