Well it doesn't quite do the cherry trees justice but after all this picture was taken with a twenty dollar mini digital camera. At Mudguard Station in the downtown, there are amazing cherry trees. They bloom for about two weeks, absolutely beautiful and then its all gone. Not decked with snow like in the Housman poem. But stunning.
A BlogStation character needs to be described. I spent fifteen minutes today watching him, whilst I was chomping on a rather tasty egg salad sandwich. I was at the station to observe the wonderful aforementioned cherry trees. I couldn't really miss HarryTheZealot. He was pacing around the station complex like a man possessed. He had a fistful of used blogtrain tickets and every time someone went to pay for their ticket at the machine Harry would approach them at the speed of light, and offer them one of his tickets at a substantial discount. Mostly he was brushed off and folks continued to pay for their ticket. Harry literally ran towards anyone trying to buy a ticket. A tall bearded man, with a long overcoat, he made for a quite disconcerting presence.
Besides offering discounted tickets, Harry assumed the role of instructor and guide for people in case they did not know how to pay or how to read maps. He was a tad menacing in his approach; I think an injection of basic people skills would have helped. However I had to admire his persistence after constant rejection.
I glanced up in the corner of the train station and I noticed a camera recording all of the action. I suspected that a blogtrain official would be along shortly to escort Harry out of there. Sure enough when I came home later in the day, not a sign of him. I'm sure he'll be back again another day.
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