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From tulips in Britain to cherry blossoms in Tokyo, this gallery captures the global poetry of spring — a season that arrives not just with petals, but with people who pause to admire, photograph, smell, and celebrate the fleeting beauty around them. Whether it's a child gazing at buttercups near the Israel-Gaza border, or visitors boating beneath sakura clouds in Tokyo, these scenes remind us that no matter where we are, spring brings a universal urge to look up, lean in, and bloom alongside nature.
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People take pictures in a canola flower field at Nyingchi Peach Blossom Park, during a government-organized tour, in Nyingchi, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. (Reuters)
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Visitors ride boats next to cherry blossoms in nearly full bloom at Chidorigafuchi park in Tokyo, Japan. (Reuters)
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Sightseers make their way through the Floral Library near the Washington Monument, beside the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C. (Reuters)
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A woman smells flowers of a magnolia tree at the French garden Jardin Nelson Mandela in Paris, France. (Reuters)
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A tourist plucks flowers from a tree inside Kashmir's tulip garden at the foothills of the Zabarwan mountain range in Srinagar. (Reuters)
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A child looks on among buttercup flowers in a field near the Israel-Gaza border, in southern Israel. (Reuters)
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A local touches the early-flowering Ookanzakura cherry blossoms almost in full bloom at Ueno Park in Tokyo, Japan. (Reuters)
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A woman takes pictures of the blooming flowers in Victoria Embankment Gardens, London. (Reuters)
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A drone view shows women taking a selfie between flowering peach trees in Aitona, in the Catalonian province of Lleida, Spain. (Reuters)
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A drone view shows visitors walking amongst tulips in bloom, part of one and a half million bulbs grown for Tulleys Tulip Fest at Tulleys Farm, Turners Hill, southern Britain. (Reuters)
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People take a selfie near pink cherry blossom trees on Cherry Blossom Avenue in downtown Bonn, Germany. (Reuters)
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White blossom trees in full bloom on West Princess Street, on April 10, 2025 in Helensburgh, Scotland. Helensburgh in Argyll and Bute has been named one of the best places in the whole of the UK to see the cherry blossom bloom this spring. (Reuters)
