Even last year, a late year for blooming, the Whitcomb photos from March 2-15 show trees in full bloom. We hardly have any posted yet, as of March 26, that are fully open, and our festival favourite locations are really not open. The plums aren't even open. Douglas Justice wrote a nice explanation in his March 23 blog.

The festival director wants to know the best viewing location to tell people when she's on radio Friday am. I told her Whitcombs on Haro at Bute in the West End. None...