Pretty in pink: Capitol walkway clad in spring finery

Steve Griffin, Deseret News

A scooter-rider takes a spin under a canopy of cherry blossoms on the .7 mile Memorial Walkway around the Capitol in Salt Lake City on Thursday, April 9, 2020. The walkway is lined with 433 Yoshino cherry trees that are now in full bloom. According to the Capitol’s website, cherry trees were sent by the Japanese to Utah as a symbol of friendship and reconciliation following World War II. In Japan, blossoming cherry trees, with their rapidly appearing flowers that die within weeks, symbolize the impermanence of life. Those trees and others at the Capitol, however, were damaged or lost when a tornado struck downtown Salt Lake City in 1999. The current Yoshino cherry trees were planted during the 2004–08 Capitol restoration project.

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