11.   Barely a month passes from the time the first cherry blossom opens to the time the last dogwood petal flutters to the ground.

12.   Baseball cast an enchanted spell on Burt Hawkins that long ago springtime afternoon, when the cherry blossoms bloomed and young hearts are vulnerable and easily won.

13.   A thin man with a long face, Hirano launched a new cherry blossom forecasting method this year.

14.   After one more cherry blossom pink-out, the wind died down and the boys and girls were able to finish the game.

15.   But we also have the cherry blossom festival or, as it is known in the Clinton era, a flora-related event.

16.   Cherry blossoms are not all we have to lose.

17.   Drifts of pink insulation cling to the bare limbs of the few trees still standing, like grotesque mock-ups of cherry blossoms.

18.   Each September, with the arrival of the antipodean spring, streets blaze with camellias and cherry blossoms.

19.   Even a few cherry blossoms lingered after their April peak.

20.   For one visitor they recalled the moment at an outdoor Noh performance in Japan when the Buddhist priests ignited braziers to light the stage at cherry blossom time.