Teresa Espinal from Newark, N.J., grabs a blossom from a cherry tree during the Cherry Blossom Festival in Branch Brook Park in Newark April 18, 2004.
John Bowman, left; Ralph Steeds, right, and Jeffery Geller relax in the shade of a dogwood tree while listening to the band Contrazz during the Red Springs Street Fair April 18, 2004, in Red Springs, N.C.
Kyrsten Romano, 7, left, and her sister Rebecca, 4, of Worthington, Ohio, stop to look at the tulips blooming at Oglebay Resort in Wheeling, W. Va., April 16, 2004, while visiting relatives in the area. Thousands of tulips are planted throughout the resort each year.
Juanita Small of Coldwater, Ohio., tends to her garden, April 8, 2004.
People walk under cherry trees in full bloom at the Japan Mint garden in Osaka, western Japan, April 10, 2004. During the week-long cherry blossom viewing festival, the garden's tiny pink petals were expected to draw more than 2 million admirers.
Wind blows the feathers of a great horned owl sitting in an elm tree on the campus quad at the University of Nevada, Reno, April 9, 2004. Two owls are raising three fledglings in the treetops.
Ryan Powell, 8, of East Longmeadow, Mass., winds up to throw to entertainer "Big League" Brian Dwyer of Somerville, Mass., during a game of catch outside Fenway Park on the Red Sox's opening day in Boston, Friday, April 9, 2004.
Noah Detrich enjoys bubbles that his sister Katrina is making while the two enjoy spring temperatures April 9, 2004, in Fremont, Ohio.
Visitors walk around Japan's Takato Joshi Park, well known for its beautiful cherry blossoms.
Jessica Shelley, 8, makes sure she doesn't step on any of the flowers during her visit to Daffodil Meadow in Mill Creek Park in Youngstown, Ohio, April 12, 2004 with her father, Tom, and dog Nibbles.
Colin Kruse, 2, inspects his strawberry count in the fields of White's Farm in Ernul, N.C. April 21, 2004 while on a picking trip with his mother and grandparents.
Juliet Lande, 3, looks at the daffodils in Daffodil Meadow in Powder Mill Park in Pittsford, N.Y., April 21, 2004. The thousands of yellow daffodils are in full bloom in the small meadow.
Megan Bykowsky, a freshman at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, enjoys the flowering crabapple trees in front of Grant Hall April 14, 2004.
The blooming magnolia trees and dandelions frame a visitor at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden while he videotapes the scenery, April 18, 2004, in New York.
A young woman walks past a row of flowering trees, April 21, 2004, at Chris Larsen Park in Sioux City, Iowa.
Heather Mitchell, left, and LaShan Gunnels, right, work on an early spring spinach harvest in a community garden in Kansas City, Mo., April 27, 2004. The 52 garden plots provide fresh produce for the soup kitchen at Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral.
Washington State University Cooperative Extension tree fruit specialist Tim Smith inspects blooms on three Red Delicious trees April 13, 2004, at the Washington State University Tree Fruit Research Center in Wenatchee, Wash.
A Canada goose keeps a close watch over goslings in Canyon Lake Park, April 26, 2004, in Rapid City, S.D. The hatch is the first one at the park this spring.
A red tulip is weighed down by snowflakes in a sea of yellow tulips in front of St. John the Evanglelist Catholic Parish in Fenton, Mich., April 27, 2004.
The cherry trees are in bloom at Civil War Park in Rochester, Pa., April 26, 2004.