Shutter-happy cherry blossom viewers take pictures of two cats in a tree at Tokyo's Ueno Park. It's springtime in Tokyo and time to stop and appreciate fragile pale pink blossoms in full bloom all over the nation's capital. Hanami, the mass flower-viewing so prevalent in springtime, was subdued last year in the wake of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

Parents photograph thier child under the cherry blossoms, the flowering cherry trees, at Kungstradgarden park in Central Stockholm on Monday, April 25.

A group sits along the Tidal Basin in Washington under blossoming cherry trees, looking toward the Washington Monument on Monday, April 4, during the 2011 National Cherry Blossom Festival.

A boy climbs into a tree to photograph blossoms near the Washington Monument in Washington on Wednesday, March 30. Cold temperatures and cloudy skies have affected the normally colorful Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington this year.

Children chase some ducks under blooming cherry trees along the Tidal Basin March 28, 2011 in Washington, DC.

A visitor takes a picture of a cherry tree during the Cherry Blossom festival at the Tidal Basin in Washington on Saturday, March 26. Peak blooming period for 2011 is predicted to be from March 29 through April 1 according to the National Park Service.